While attending Claremont McKenna College studying for a Physics and Mathematics Double Major, I started developing a passion for Computer Science and software development. What started as an elective class/hobby became my sole focus. I decided to change tracks and left school to pursue a career in software development because of restrictions on my field of study from my scholarship.
I used the UCSD Extension Web Development Coding Boot Camp to create a
foundation for my skills, which helped me understand MVC architecture,
as well as engrossing myself in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js). In addition to the boot
camp, I have used Python professionally, and am currently using
Java primarily in my studies, which gives me unique experience
simply because of the breadth of exposure to different technical stacks and
development environments.
After completing my boot camp, I began working for Digital Champs and I had an opportunity to come in on the ground-floor of the start up Jubel Health. I worked closely with the team to bootstrap an MVP that was released simultaneously as a web app and an iPhone App. This was a particularly interesting time as I was able to leverage my full-stack learning to create the foundational infrastructure for the application and learn about chat bot development. I quite enjoyed the small team environment and the challenges of reaching MVP for a product for which requirements were sometimes in flux.
After 2 years at Digital Champs / Jubel Health, I wanted to push myself to work at a larger company to gain experience with a larger engineering team and gain experience with fitting into an already established engineering culture. I began working at Redox as an engineer on their Platform Experience team, whose focus was maintaining their customer dashboard. I learned much from my time there: what an established engineering culture looks like, how on-call rotations for an enterprise-level company work, and how engineering designs can pivot to meet goals further down the horizon.