I didn’t always dream of becoming a developer. As a kid, I told my mom I wanted to study football (or soccer—I’m inclusive like that). She laughed, and so did I eventually. Programming wasn’t even on my radar growing up. I studied Soil Science at university, and while I knew programming existed, I didn’t fully understand what it was.

My journey into tech began when I stumbled upon Python through a YouTube ad. I loved the name—it sounded dangerous, and that intrigued me. I bought a Python course on Udemy and wrote my first “Hello, World!”.

But as a visual person, I wanted to see my work come to life. I enrolled in a one-year Diploma program in software engineering, where i learned frontend development, learning how to stack boxes, add colors, and bring designs to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.