My experience

I started coding and making games with things like Game Maker, TI-83 Basic, and even just .bat files when I was 12. I took all the coding classes available to me in high school and university, but didn't think or realize that I had developed career worthy skills until 2014.

I was first contracted as a programmer at Istation in 2015 and was hired on as a Programmer 2 thanks to my performance. After exhausting the Interactive Programmer path I applied for and was made one of the first two Team Leads of the department. In that role I successfully lead a team of programmers in an extremely large project that resolved over 20 years of technical debt and bugs, while also heading a programmer team for Spanish Reading projects. Following these projects I applied for my current role working on Istation's assessments. I now work on multiple applications and with mulitple languages in service of Istation's flagship product.