About Me
I love computers, my first passion with computers was playing games. The first times I remember using a computer were to play the very amazing (at the time at least) games on Windows 2000. When I truly fell in love with the computer was when I inserted my brothers Red Alert 1 floppy disk and started building bases, it would be an understatement to say that I was obsessed.
This obsession continued as a child but it wasn't until I was around 12 years old that I learnt you could create applications for a computer yourself. I was playing an MMORPG game called RuneScape, I won't bother explaining more most of you know what that means. I ended up creating a drop tracker for the game. It was a fairly simple program, every time you received a drop it would log which drop it was and began to workout the probability of receiving any particular drop. From this point on, any time I had a problem that I thought could be solved with a computer program, I would try to solve it.
My first job was completely unrelated to programming, my dad was the owner of a construction company so I began working with my dad. I still didn't realise at the time that I had any actual skills in programming and didn't know it was an actual job path. It wasn't until I was around 18 years old that I was introduced to web development and found out that people would pay for websites. I did a few small jobs for friends and family but I knew this wasn't my path, the design aspect just wasn't for me.
The first "proper" job I had relating to programming was was working with a company called ITMarine LTD in 2015. They were a fairly small company that had created in house tools for ship brokerage firms. The technology was very dated but the idea was cool. It was the first time that I thought to myself that I could do this job forever. I loved working on data, for me it was far easier to visualize than creating a UI/UX.
Since then I've worked with various companies picking up new skills, and forgetting a ton of old skills. Now I'm looking to take the next step. I want to find a startup that I can work with and build the system from the ground up, with all the risks that come with that.