My core-experience are without a doubt in the JavaScript language, that being functional programming or OOP, and though my journey started with PHP and jQuery, I believe that JavaScript has matured and improved over the last decade, proving to be the best all-around language for anything, whether it being websites, API servers, microservice infrastructures, robotics or native apps for mobile and desktop.

I started out in brand strategy and identity design, but slowly transitioned in to coding and development, as I realised early on, that I couldn’t rely on third parties to provide me the level of quality I insisted on delivering for my clients. So, as they say, “if you want it done right, do it yourself”. WordPress and PHP were my first steps in the development world, and i got so curious as to how it worked that I even experimented in building my own full-stack framework called Well (unfortunately now lost in a BitBucket account tied to a long forgotten high-school e-mail address), which featured navigation history, routing, server side rendering, AJAX communication with a backend service, and more. It was dependant on PHP as back-end, a preferred MVC file structure, and jQuery on the front-end, but it worked, and a few sites such as CBDORA, My Life My Book, Raw Attitude, even a bespoke campaign management tool built for Fiat Industrial, and more were built using this framework.

A few years later I learned about React and transitioned almost instantly away from my own setup. But I know that pushing myself in to building such framework (despite how limited featurewise and code heavy it was) – it gave me so much understanding and experience, which has proved useful later on in learning new languages, understanding core development fundamentals, learning computer science, and expanding my own palette of languages and frameworks as it stands today.