My First Blog

September 1st, 2025

A month has passed since I started my full-time role as a junior developer. Right away, I started learning things I had never tried before, and while it was incredibly intimidating, I still managed to pull through and do a decent job - at least I think so.

Before this job, I knew Python, JavaScript, and Go at an average level, and I had a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals. With that knowledge, I had built a few personal projects, including a command-line-interface (CLI) application that bought products from various websites, a reverse SSH tunnel, and several websites for both clients and myself.

Now, fast forward a month, and here I am. I’ve learned so much thanks to my employer pushing me beyond my own limits. I’ve dug into DevOps, learned the nuts and bolts of Docker, CI/CD, Git, and system design in general. I’ve also gained a new appreciation for the immense effort and thought that goes into building large, “data-intensive applications,” thanks to Martin Klappmann and my employer. All of these topics I had previously heard about, but they were far from things I had truly explored or made use of.

What’s next? is the only question that comes to my mind. Honestly, I’m not sure what the next step in this journey will be. I’d love to strengthen my knowledge of Go, but I also want to explore backend engineering, DevOps, and system design. It kind of also depends on what birthday presents I get! On September 10th I’ll turn 20 years old, and I would love a Raspberry Pi 5 to dive deeper into homelabbing and, more generally, how hardware functions.

I know this has been a very self-centered blog post, and I apologize for that. But what I want you to take away from this is one simple truth: even if you don’t realize it, some people see great things in you, and there are always new things you can learn to enhance your knowledge of a topic, much like what I do with computer science.