It started with W3Schools and a "View Source" button. I spent my nights figuring out how to nest iframes and manipulate CSS to make the web my playground. That early dopamine hit of seeing code turn into a visual reality set the stage for everything that followed. Do I miss the days of iframe ? Probably not, but I do miss the days of having nested iframes and manipulating CSS to make the web my playground.
I traded basic HTML for the terminal. During my CS degree, things got "real." I was commanding Raspberry Pis through the CLI and dive-deep into the logic of Object-Oriented Programming—culminating in building a 3D Chess game in Java. This was where I learned to love the "math and logic" behind the magic.
For some reason, I thought that I needed to be a "frontend developer". I spent my days perfecting layouts with CSS and built tools. The industry was shifting, and I shifted with it. I dove into Angular and React, obsessing over the new term "SPA". I loved the creativity, but I started noticing the "bad" side: beauty doesn't matter if the system underneath is fragile.
I built my first fullstack foundations on the LAMP stack (PHP/MySQL), but I truly found my flow when I moved into the Node/Mongo (MERN) ecosystem. This was the turning point where my analytical side took the wheel. I realized that "good" code isn't just about how it looks, but how it scales.
Today, I'm focused on the "how" and "why" of massive systems. My work now balances creative frontend artistry with rigorous backend engineering. I spend my time solving high-stakes problems that come with scale: DevOps, scalability, and reliability.
"I'm no longer just building pages; I'm building resilient digital ecosystems."
Adopting AI into my workflow hasn't just made me faster but it's also made me a "fuller-stack developer". By automating the repetitive, I can now have the freedom to dive deep into new domains, learn complex tools, and prototype ambitious a dn creating ideas at the speed of thought.
It turns out, when you spend less time wrestling with boilerplate, you have a lot more time to master the craft of systems architecture... and finally I can have the proper to learn how to make a great espresso shot.