Self-Taught Learning

I've been programming for {{yearsOfExperience}} years, and I started on my own. In high school I met programming through Java, but following the lessons wasn't enough for me: I wanted to understand how things worked and build my own.

First steps: Node.js and Discord

I started on my own with Node.js, writing bots for Discord. Projects that looked simple but taught me concrete things: asynchronous events, external APIs, data persistence, error handling. And above all, real people used those bots, reporting bugs and asking for new features.

How I grew

From there I didn't stop. I went deeper into JavaScript, studied Python and took up Go. I spent time on databases, PostgreSQL and MySQL above all. Every technology I study doesn't stay theory: I apply it in a project, however small.

The home server room

The place where I put what I learn into practice is my home server room, a Linux setup with Docker. There I try configurations and tools in real settings, and keep up work on artificial-intelligence models that run locally.

Today

I still spend part of my free time studying. Right now I'm most interested in Go, machine learning and LLMs. This self-taught path taught me to be independent at solving problems and not to give up in the face of difficulty.