Discovery 🔎

My passion for programming started at the age of eleven after having been introduced to Khan Academy.

Learning 🧭

For the next three years, I would learn frontend development from Khan and FreeCodeCamp, and the basics of Fullstack Web Applications from Codecademy.

Connection 🌐

I searched for a suitable place to host my fullstack websites. I found Replit and joined their Discord Community. I also joined an unofficial Khan Academy discord server.

Discord allowed me to communicate with others in realtime, dramatically improving my productivity. I hung around people I shouldn't have, did some foolish stuff, and got my account nuked.

Competition 🏆

I started to dip into competitive programming by doing a few coding challenges and hackathons. In November of 2021, Replit announced their annual game jam. Participating in it helped me get close to the community. I cut the rope on Khan and stuck to Replit.

Motivation 🔥

After participating in the game jam, I decided that I wanted to work at Replit. I applied for an internship and flunked the interview. I wasn't about to stop there.

In the next eight months, I did a three-month internship at Saasbox, raced solving algorithms on Codingame, learned and build multiple projects with Next.js, and took up the responsibility of moderating the Replit community.

I made some impactful improvements to Replit's moderation tools and did some contract work for their Trust and Safety team. I decided it was time to apply for Replit again.

Opportunity ✨

After two more attempts, I got hired by Replit as a Support Engineer. For the next year, I:

• Built and improved anti-abuse tools
• Fixed some small bugs and added some new features
• Improved some of Replit's Support Tools
• Remodeled and maintained the docs
• Built some AI projects
• Maintained the Replit Extensions Client
• Helped out with DevRel & Marketing on twitter

Next steps

In the next step of my life, I want to dive deeper into Content Creation and Entrepreneurship.