Intro
I discovered programming in 2017-2018. I was messing around in my exchange school’s robotics team’s lab, then enrolled in Robotics II. Shout out to Team 1818: Talos from Shreveport, Louisiana. I learned to program the Arduino bots in Arduino Lang which I believe is a C++ derivative optimized for wiring components and talking to servos and other electrical components.
After that experience, progress slowed down and my attention moved elsewhere, I had to finish high school when I went home and that took a lot out of me due to other circumstances circa Libya 2019…IYKYK.
Schooling
UBC
After my acceptance into UBC in 2021 and the wonderful trip that was the Covid pandemic, I started looking into ComputerScience again as that was my desired major. I took a few CS courses at UBC while I was a first-year student at the faculty of science, some I enjoyed and others I lament to this day. When the time came, I applied to the CS program after a grueling year and a half. Safe to say that didn’t pan out, my UBC experience was very very bad but it did answer one thing, SoftwareDevelopment was for me.
BCIT
Then BCIT happened and my immersion into CS and Software ramped up exponentially, aided by the fact that I was coding more each month than I have in the years prior. Being surrounded by sharp and technical peers and instructors that were there for me to help breakdown the tough stuff helped a ton.
I did a co-op with PHSA, and despite it not being a dev role, I coded a fair bit on that job too and managed to tie it back into my skill set and make the most out of it. BCIT was a very positive influence on my social life too, oddly enough hah!
Projects
I’ve a few under my belt and more in the pipeline. Like most devs I LOVE starting new projects, but finishing them…? Well depends on how you define finished, I guess. I am a fan of the The Cult of Done ethos, it’s a healthy way of looking at projects’ completion.
To see what I’ve worked on, checkout mywebsite
What’s next?
I graduated BCIT’s CST program in June of 2025, I learned a great deal and worked on many projects across several domains, paradigms, and stacks; with even more partners and teams.
I’m now searching for my first post-grad, real job but the market’s utterly hideous right now, so we’ll see how that goes.