My Journey

From my first line of code to production deployments — the milestones, learnings, and transitions along the way.

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Shipped ShootLight PWA

Second production app deployed — a PWA with offline support, push notifications, and weather integration. Built entirely with AI.

PWAService WorkersGeolocation API
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Learning Systems Design Through AI

Understood database indexing, caching strategies, and API design by prompting AI to explain trade-offs while building features. The project became my curriculum.

PostgreSQLRedisAPI Design
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First CI/CD Pipeline Green

GitHub Actions pipeline passed all 221 tests for the first time. Automated deployment to production server went live.

DockerGitHub ActionsCI/CD
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From Zero Code to Shipping: First Commit

Wrote my first line of code ever. Started building No Scratch Nav with zero programming experience, using AI as my teacher and pair programmer.

GitReactNode.js