My Journey into Software Engineering!!

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a software engineer.”

Just kidding, guys 😅. Nope, this is not the case for me. I am just quoting the famous dialogue from Goodfellas.

For me, I was introduced to programming in the year 2009 when I joined my higher secondary schooling. It was C++, running in its famous blue IDE with large fonts and everything, that too on an old Windows XP machine. At that time, I didn’t have a PC at home. To be honest, I didn’t find programming that amusing in those days. I was trying to learn code by heart instead of understanding the language itself.

I got a small spark at the end of schooling but was still in a very confused state about whether this could be my future.

In 2011, I joined college to pursue my degree, and there things were different. I got introduced to Linux machines. There was this black terminal with the “forever” blinking cursor, and we needed to connect to the college’s server using the telnet command to write codes. I was introduced to the VIM editor, and suddenly, a whole new world was introduced to me.

I learned C, I learned Python, I learned Linux. The college library and my professors helped me a lot. I learned the fundamentals of software engineering from the college. Data structures and algorithms made me wonder, and implementing them in code made me happy.

I realized there is more to programming than just printing "hello world!" on the screen. And there are a lot of opportunities here where I can contribute. I realized that those contributions will make a better future for human beings. That’s when I decided this is my future.

After college, I never applied for any government jobs, I never applied for any bank jobs where the degree is a minimum qualification, and lots of my friends were applying for it. When college was done, I was decided that this is my future, this is my career, I enjoy this stuff, and it makes me happy.

And this is my 9th year in the industry as a software engineer, and I am more than happy with my work and everything it gives. ❤️

What more could you ask for? 😊