When I was growing up, I was someone who was interested in gaming, I was a big time gamer and I could even spend 4 hours playing games. In January 2019, I reached to an extent when I wanted to see what really happens behind the scenes of game, that’s when I started to hear stuff like coding, programming, development and I was like “Yes I’m in”. Long story short I googled the how tos and the number 1 option was to learn C++.

I downloaded some e-books, development tools and started learning. To be honest with you it was a nightmare learning C++, I didn’t have a mentor and I only managed to grasp the very basics like decision making, conditionals, file system, etc. As I had no idea on how to build projects, I ended up learning HTML, CSS & Javascript. Thanks to Rafeh Qazi from Clever Programmer, he really made my coding life easier and I started to build static websites.

June 2019
I came across a certain software engineering course on Udacity and quickly enrolled. It was C++ again backed with C#. I learnt many concepts in software engineering like the complete SDLC, distributed systems design, databases, design patterns, building web applications from start to finish using ASP.NET Core, etc. I finished the course in 4 months and by that time I was feeling it in my veins that I’m now a software engineer. I started to build my own projects and experimenting with other technologies like Node.js, Django, React.js, Angular, etc.

May 2020
I started freelancing. I learnt how to communicate with my clients and deliver projects on time. I built web applications, desktop applications and websites. I didn’t make that much from freelancing as I was still in school so most probably I worked on weekends and holidays.

September 2021
I got hired by an Indian company called Pabbly which provides a subscription billing software. To be honest with you, the interview was tough, it was just like a normal Google coding interview so had to solve 4 coding problems, 35 minutes each and passed 3 out of 4 questions. I worked with other software engineers to implement the affiliate management system. Though I was working remotely, I had a lot of fun interacting with Indian developers through live video calls. I worked there for almost 10 months. Other than writing code, I did technical documentation writing and code reviews.

Right now I’m currently 19 years old, only left with 2 months to finish my final high school exams and I can’t wait to work physically for a tech company you know I wanna experience those stand-up meetings, the corporate culture, interact with other developers physically, etc.