My Journey as a Software Engineer
Imagine this as a picture of me (lol)
It all started in 2013 after I finished my associate degree. I join a software house company called 3PM Solution and worked as Desktop App Developer. I work mainly on Visual Basic which I'm pretty sure not many developers nowadays even have heard about it (lmao). Since the desktop app is not separated by a frontend and backend like a web app, I have a requirement to understand SQL queries too. I learn queries from databases like MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL which actually have a lot of similarities in between. In this company, I get experience to make apps for retail, warehouse, and manufacturing.
After a few years of wandering around desktop programming, I realized that the programming world is already shifting to the web app and mobile app. I felt like being left behind (╥﹏╥). Then I got my first experience with the web app from an Angular 4 project, it feels like a different world to me. Since then I fell in love with web app development, I switch my career to a Frontend Engineer and I work daily on Nuxt and Vue.
But as we all know, technology never fall asleep. We shall never stop learning to stay relevant with the latest technology. So I jump up into another framework and learning Next and React. For the backend environment I learn ExpressJS, it kind of old tech for some people but I think it's a good start to learn on backend stuff since it also based on javascript.