After obtaining a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration in 2016 I was able to land my first post college job at a sales tax accounting firm as an Analyst… The name was more glamorous than the job. My job was to meet with people who paid for a consultation and assess whether they were in any danger of owing the state money in the event of a sales tax audit. The truth is, most of them were already being audited which is why they were needing a consultation to begin with. I did this job for about 6 months. I was MISERABLE to say the least, but I didn’t realize it until one day my boss came in and asked me to fix the company website.

The company website was a WordPress site and I has no clue what I was doing. I was so lost that I spent days just staring at docs and Stack Overflow posts to fix some simple CSS. Eventually I fixed the website to a satisfactory level and then it hit me. I just spent a week doing something that would have drove most people mad, and yet, for the first time in the 6 months I had worked at this company I felt a sense of satisfaction. I felt like I enjoyed every last second of the entire week. A month later I was no longer at the company and was enrolled full time in the Computer Science program at my local university.

Many years later and here I am, a professional developer and loving every second of it; although, admittedly I haven’t touched WordPress since that day. Today I enjoy all aspects of the stack but prefer backend and devops. I don’t prefer one over the other as I find both of them and the way they interact absolutely fascinating. I go to work every day in the pursuit of being the best developer I can be. I now have 5 years of professional experience in both devops and backend (as of 2021).

The purpose of this site is not as much to sell myself (although feel free to contact me with any opportunities), but to provide insight into interesting problems that I have come across in my journey as a developer. Some posts will be about devops, some about backend/frontend code and some about topics like my dotfiles and my computer set up. Heck, some might be a random brain dump that might not mean anything to anyone except me.One thing is for sure, if simply one of my posts helps someone overcome a problem, that all that matters.

One of my favorite sayings is “We would be worth our weight in gold if we could learn all the good from experience and all the bad from being told”, and that is what this blog is about.