My dev Journey.
I never imagined that months before graduating as a renewable energy engineer, I would discover my true passion for programming. It started by chance — watching how Japanese light novel games are built with scripting languages sparked a curiosity I couldn't ignore. I taught myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — now TypeScript — through FreeCodeCamp, YouTube tutorials, and eventually official documentation and LeetCode.
In September 2024, I made the leap — I cold-messaged a tech company on LinkedIn with my portfolio and landed my first IT role. Since then I've been working at Flow Digital Studio as a fullstack developer, shipping production features in Next.js, NestJS, and TypeScript.
My most significant work so far has been performance engineering: I eliminated N+1 database queries, replaced sequential calls with parallel queries, and added pagination and caching — reducing a critical API timeout from 60 seconds to under 200 ms. I've also learned what it means to work in a real team: daily standups, code reviews, pull request feedback, and navigating a large production codebase.
I'm now expanding toward cloud and DevOps engineering — currently pursuing AWS certification — with the goal of becoming a well-rounded engineer across the full stack and infrastructure.