The burning problem
I came for the science. I stayed because I could build.
I started out in biomedical science. I am the kind of person who can't settle until I know how something works, and that did not stay in the lab. The first time I turned an idea into something other people could use became the starting point. I was hooked.
So I taught myself to ship. CS50, FreeCodeCamp, Codecademy, Endless Youtube and Udemy hours, that's a lot of late nights on real projects: a full operational platform with its own back office, a secure auth system with MFA, an offline-first app for South Sudan, a catalogue that finally gave a university department sight of thousands of lab items (Built before AI could be trusted with quality code).
I use AI in my workflow every day. It lets me move faster than I ought to and learn at the same pace, which is the whole reason this site exists. MVL stood out to me straight away. You take what is stuck in a founder's head and turn it into a product they can sell. That is the work I want to be doing, testing new fronts and delivery quality software that make a difference.