Year 1 Software Developer
I'm a first-year software developer with a lot of hands-on experience picked up outside of class — tinkering, breaking things, and figuring out how they work.
I started when I was 10, with an old computer that had been passed down in my family. It wasn't much, but it did its job. At first I just used it for normal things — some Word, Teams, and a few simple games. Minecraft was one of the games that really caught my attention. It was simple, yet so complicated at the same time. I was fascinated by the mods and modpacks people were building, and that's what sent me down the rabbit hole of software development. That's when I realized I actually loved programming — and figuring out how things really worked.
I started gathering information about programming and how I could begin actually learning it. I was 12 at the time. I didn't have any form of education, so I did all my research online. I read that Python was the best language to start with, so I installed Visual Studio Code and began watching simple YouTube tutorials. That's when I became obsessed.
After realizing this was my passion, I started doing more and more research — not only about programming, but also about what software runs on, and how other people get access to it. Servers and networking.
I'm now 16, and my knowledge has grown significantly. I've developed projects that were actually useful, set up a 2-node Proxmox cluster so I can truly own my own media, and I manage the entire network in and around the house I live in.
But I'm far from done.
Outside of coding, I run my own homelab — it's where a lot of my practical experience comes from.
Feel free to reach out — happy to help anyone!
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