We all have a story to tell...

At a young age, I was so interested in electricity and machinery. I always made my own toys from scrap. One time, I tried manually spinning a TAMIYA motor and attaching a red LED to it. To my surprise, a tiny light showed up. I accidentally discovered this reversing of the flow of electricity.

Unlike the other kids who start computer programming at a young age, it has never crossed my mind. When I was a kid, I would make an electric toy boat, go hiking, gaze at the dusk sky, or do other things. Yet, I got exposure and access to old computers sent by my relatives from the US. Before I entered my teenage years, I’ve already broken the OSs of our computers. Being new, I realised that I messed up the system files while exploring and experimenting. I was not really an Internet person back then and we weren’t connected. So I had to solve the issue on my own. Luckily, I accidentally managed to get into a BIOS setup. I used to play around Windows 98, 2000, and XP. I have no regrets of breaking these things since I learned and discovered how to format such machines.

In high school, I would teach myself Adobe Photoshop during holidays. In our freshman year, we created a hello world application in Visual Basic. High school was when I also got interested in music and moved away from my tinkering hobbies. In our senior year, we had a project using HTML.

My friends and I began playing the guitar. We joined a small youth organisation in our village and learned other musical instruments. To give back, we taught the younger kids to play during summer and holidays for their stage performance.

I entered college and in my freshman year, I didn’t know what my course Computer Science is really all about. It was suggested to me by my older engineer cousin. I followed his advice and after a few weeks, I realised that we’ve made the right choice since I really enjoyed understanding and building things.

As part of our university requirements, I took my internship at Cloudstaff, a fun and friendly workplace. I got trained with a team of students and they eventually became my friends. There were so many fun activities and parties here.

Graduation Day!

I worked at Cloudstaff, the company where I took my internship. I was part of the Mobile Development Team. I wrote apps, maintained the codebases, added new features.

I got the chance to work with awesome people from USA. We worked together to build the core products of Bucket. I was the iOS Developer on the team. I also helped the Android guys whenever there was a chance.