I was 34 years old in a job I hated when I decided to learn to code.

I had only planned to stay in that job for 6 months while I looked for something better. And that 6 months unfortunately turned into 10 years.

Time flies! ✈️

However, during the latter part of that 10 years I started a blog (non-dev related). That blog led me to having to learn a little HTML and CSS which I found thrilling; so much so that I ended up enrolling in a coding bootcamp.

Learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and building websites was a whole new world for me. And a really, really exciting one!

During the first half of this bootcamp, I started taking on whatever freelance work I could find. I just couldn’t get enough!

And when my job announced that it would be outsourcing our department I decided to go for it: to jump into the world of freelance web development full time.

I soon quit the bootcamp (see ya Ruby on Rails) and became a freelancer.

And the rest is history … a history that’s documented on my blog.

I went from working in WordPress/PHP for agencies to a 100% success score on Upwork.

I later made my way back into the corporate office as a software developer working on large sites like Golf.com and eventually large-scale mission-critical systems as a DevOps engineer/SRE.

That’s the short story. If you want more juicy details, watch this video

Currently, I'm a Developer Relations Engineer creating content for developers (like you), and interacting with dev communities.

The best place to find me is on YouTube where I'm consistently sharing all that I'm learning along the way. See you there!