I first dabbled in code in 2015, and became convinced that the tech industry wasn't for "people like me". After much encouragement from friends and colleagues, I got back to it in 2018, started with the freeCodeCamp "Responsive Web Design" certification and never looked back.
Programming has become the thing I am *most* passionate about, and the thing I now cannot imagine *not* doing. I love working with diverse teams to solve complex problems that help people live better lives through tech.
I recently completed the Flatiron School Software Engineering Certificate program, which covers a "Full Stack" curriculum of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, and SQL. More recently, I've been focusing on increasing my knowledge of JavaScript, React, and Rails, and supplementing my current stack with Node, Express, Gatsby, MongoDB and GraphQL.
During my time as a fully remote student at Flatiron, I started a local meetup group that I called "Code Cafe NJ", which served as a way to socialize and network with other local coders.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the US, we took Code Cafe fully online, and now have a thriving Discord server with over 100 active members. We host impromptu digital meetups, and provide a welcoming community for coders of all kinds.
July 10th, 2020
After nearly two years of studying and learning, I was finally starting to not feel so much like a "beginner" or a "newbie" at programming. I've built…
July 3rd, 2020
So, this week I meant to put up the next post in my MERN stack project series, but I realized that I was leaving out a huge part of the project…
June 19th, 2020
Previously in this series we walked through setting up your first Express server , and then setting up the beginnings of an Express API with…