Welcome,

I’ve worked in various IT positions over the years, and I’ve found I enjoy the problem-solving and camaraderie that a development environment provides. To that end, I spent a large portion of my free time before Holberton studying programming languages. When my charm and determination weren’t enough to win me the type of positions I had hoped for, I decided I needed to either go back to school and finish my bachelor's or take a chance on Holberton. It’s been a tumultuous two years of practice and study with my cohort at Holberton.

Without instructors, the curriculum fosters a collaborative environment among your cohort as you work through projects. It is much more like a work environment than a university, which fits me well, as I’ve always been a self-starter. There are several instances where I was employed in a non-development role and took it upon myself to automate routine processes in my free time. I used bash scripts, password-protected executables written in C#, and reverse-engineered Adobe’s Outlook extension for mass email conversion.

During my time at Holberton, I was privileged to have been a student tutor. I was tasked with explaining algorithms, providing live coding examples, and assisting in debugging code for the next cohort.

As to what comes next? Well, that’s anybody’s guess. All I can do is keep climbing and reach for the sky!

“...and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
 --Theodore Roosevelt