About Me

Hi, 

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I'm Quynh! I am about to start a whole new life chapter and invite you to follow me along on this journey.

 

For the past four years I've been working in a media agency, buying ad space for clients. One day, I wanted to become a software developer.

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How that wish came about? At work I noticed the immense amount of time we spend on repetitive tasks that required a very simple logic tree to be executed. So thoughts of a certain kind kept popping up: "If only I could pay a software developer to design this and this feature, we would save so much time..."

 

This went on for months, even a year. Then one day something clicked. A friend of mine, a software engineer, was describing his day to day life. What he did sounded like, "There are a bunch of problems, we pick one, take them apart, and solve them." That sounded like fun! As if you had puzzles and riddles to solve every day. That's what I want! 

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But - there was this doubt. My father is a software engineer, my brother is an IT project manager - these jobs are for boys! And I can't program, I can't code, I don't have a computer science degree.

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Then, I stumbled across code.org. The message was simple: EVERYONE can code. Everyone SHOULD code. Even elementary school kids are being taught how to code. So why not me?! 

 

I could be that software developer.

 

My first baby steps were taken on KhanhAcademy and my first lines of code put out a triangle on the screen. I've never seen such a beautiful crooked triangle before!

 

So I was hooked. It's like learning a foreign language, which has always been one of my passions. And the best part - programming language have a solid grammar, they don't have weird exceptions like, let's say French.

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Reaching my goal to work as a software developer will take, time, effort, sweat, blood, you name it! But most importantly, I am entering a world, where there is a seemingly infinitely amount to learn.

 

And it starts here and now in New York - I am diving head first into a coding bootcamp. For 15 weeks I am voluntarily asking to be pushed to my intellectual and motivational limits. And it already feels like one of the best decisions I've ever made.

 

Contact Me:

quynh.totuan@gmail.com