I started my first developer job as a paid intern in November 2023 and they hired me shortly after! I started there with creating my own full stack feature, a custom dashboard. This was my first back end experience. It was also my first time using .NET, C#, SQL, Angular and TS. Soon after I got my own project to work on which was mostly WPF POS software.
I've been a commercial pilot and aviation instructor during most of my working years. Now that I am not flying airplanes anymore I have decided to look into an equally fulfilling career change. I feel passionate about programming and am absolutely thrilled I found that new passion.
Next to my programming career, I am still running my own business(es) on the side. One is in type, design, print, and illustration and the other is aviation consultancy and teaching.
During my programming journey, I try to help out fellow learners as I can, either through Discord, or by contributing to open-source projects aimed at teaching. In June 2023 I became part of the maintainer team for The Odin Project and I am honoured, humbled and excited to be able to contribute to such an amazing resource alongside professionals and fellow contributors in the field.
I've learned nearly everything I know about programming through The Odin Project Curriculum which is aimed at full stack development and instilling the programmer mindset, honing problem-solving skills and mainly building things on your own, from scratch, utilizing the documentation and your own research.
Some of the TOP Projects I've worked on:
- Latest: A shopping cart React project built using Vite and React, testing with RTL and Vitest
- HeartStone themed memory game using Vite and React
- CV Builder app with React
- Weather App: Mainly to get a feel for working with API's and async code
- Binary Search Tree: I'm sharing this one instead of my Knights Travails for I feel like the BST exercise was the most elaborate of the Computer Science projects to figure out.
- BattleShip: A project that starts out with writing tests in Jest
intellectual challenges / learning new things, a good cup of coffee, being able to share knowledge, genuine social connections, finding a captivating game, the smell of fresh rain, a good sense of innocent but witty humor, maker tools (our house has a workplace for making all kinds of printed things), purposeful listening to music, exploring new things and locations, flowers.
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