Starting in my early childhood years, my interest for software development all began with a simple thought of working with computers. One day on a "take your child to work day", I was brought into a tall office building in a business center and spent the day there; from then on I was infatuated with thoughts of the city and its tall buildings and computers (also even elevators). I was encouraged to keep this interest of computer work, and I did indeed fixate on this idea and it turned into a dream (as you can see to the right here in this 10/10 artwork 👉, p.s the yellow thing is a computer).

During my senior year of high school, the school opened up a Computer Science elective class. I took this class for a full year and it only solidified my dream to work with computers, brought me into software development, and led me into Turing School of Software and Design, a 1500-hour intensive software development program.

Turing School of Software and Design is a federally accredited software development school and after reviewing my options for starting my career in tech, this one in particular stood out to me. Turing is sectioned out into four different sections, Mod 1 to Mod 4, each focusing on different areas of software development, and areas that were relevant to what the industry actually looks like and needs. This school not only offered the technical skills that the industry needed, but also industry practices that would be used in the workplace such as teams doing stand-up meetings, DTRs, and retros. So I enrolled in the Back End program and the reward for completing this program was an Accredited Certificate in Backend Engineering and being one step closer to my goals. This program was indeed intense to say the least; school hours from 9am - 4pm MT, weekly projects, assignments, and independent studying to order to keep up and understand the concepts being taught. This all could only be achieved by dedication, passion, adaptability, and many more skills in order to keep up with the program and its requirements to move forward.

I grew up playing sports such as football and basketball so since then I've been pretty into sports; my teams are the Denver Nuggets and the Denver Broncos and I also really enjoy watching UFC. In my free time I like to play video games such as Apex Legends but I've truly have been waiting for Cities Skylines 2 to drop. Another hobby I will be doing soon is developing my passion project called CodeCore; during high school what really helped me learn and study were interactive apps like Kahoot and GimKit, and I really love the idea to create a quiz app like these that helps me study in the way of developing it with new technologies I'm learning and also using the app myself to study!

• Experience Exchange 🤝, an application that allows users to connect with other local users and share hobbies and skills🎻
• CodeCore 📖, a passion project that quizzes the user on software development fundamentals, terms, and more 👩‍🏫 👨‍🎓

	Description
	A platform that enables developers to package, distribute, and run applications in isolated containers, providing portability across different environments.
	Amazon Web Services (AWS); a cloud platform for flexible and scalable computing services.
	An open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
	A programming language known for its excellent performance, scalability, and simplicity.

(Here 👈 is my glossary for all of these and more👇)

Languages/Frameworks	Markup and Styling Languages	Query Languages	Databases	Workflow	Cloud Platforms

Testing/Testing Frameworks	API Tools	Testing Utilities

Project Management and Communication	Architectural Patterns	Methodologies and Practices	Familiar