I was born on Friday March 5th, 1993 in small island called Dominican Republic
When I was 1, my mom and my dad split up. She moved to America, but I stayed behind
because my mom had a residency and I wasn't allowed in the states. When I was 4,
my mom moved me to New Jersey.
This was one of the first pictures of me when I arrived here.
I started school a year later. It was horrible because I didn't know
how to speak english properly.
I was always very competitive, so when I found out that I don't need to know English
to understand Mathematics I became curious on what else I could do with it. I became
emotionally attached to Math. It became a source of pride and regardless of how many
picked on me, I always felt like it didn't matter because I was better than them at something
Fast forward 14 years later, I got into the best High School in Newark, NJ.
In my junior year, I took an Advanced Placement Computer Science course, I really just took
for the GPA scale of the class, but I never knew how much I would love it.
The first language I learned was Java. I understood programming concepts fairly easily, but as
any Developer would tell you: it's one thing to understand something and a completely different
beast mastering how to use it
I matured more as a programmer in college. Java became cool again when people would pay me to
tutor them. Android became cool when I joined the Rutgers University Mobile App Development club.
The hardest part was learning C. Pointers really tripped me up, and I still don't think I completely
understand how the hell this is a sentence char** and this is a sentence char*
Securing my Co op as a Software Engineer at UPS was the best decision I've ever made.
Regardless of how much code you write while in school, the real world is the best place to learn
and harness your skills as a developer. I love c#, it's the best and most well thought out
languages I've ever used and Visual Studios is the best compiler in the world.