Hi there ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ, How's life?
Whether because you know me and I linked this site to you or you discovered it by pure chance, it appears that you've wound up on this little site of mine eh? Welcome!
Background
I've been into tech since I was in Middle School where I taught myself VBScript and C# and created some learning tools for my teachers just for fun. Once I got to High School, I decided to take things a bit more seriously by working as a student IT support where I did cable runs and coded a utility for the offices to use for security camera view swapping. I also tried to get a computer science program started at the high school, though the plans ended up falling through so I had to continue learning on my own until I reached University.
In University I found myself right at home being able to study Python, Java, C++ and a whole slew of useful fundamental concepts. All the while I found myself researching and working on projects using what I had learned as well as applying the skills in Docker and React that I picked up during my summer internship.
After University, I spent a year or so developing a personal AI Assistant App called Nabi Project that I more or less used as a testing ground for experimenting with managing an entire development infrastructure stack on Kubernetes nodes deployed onto VMs (Proxmox) on the server in my homelab fully onPrem. Since that was in 2021 before ChatGPT and the Generative AI Boom, the project took more of an NLU based intent prediction into predetermined functions approach more akin to the chatbots I made for my Twitch chat back in high school.
After my focus shifted more away from development on the project to managing the infra, I figured it was about time that I step out of the Homelab and acquired some professional experience through my first Job at the Consulting Firm FDM Group. Here I was contracted out as a IT Consultant for Deutsche Bank in Florida and stayed with them until the end of my contract when I decided not to renew due to family circumstances at the time requiring my presence back in Tennessee.
Once back in Tennessee, I struggled to find a job within the vicinity that would even consider looking at my resume, and for an entire year, only received a single interview regardless of how many jobs I applied to. Around this time, I was starting to grow tired of the antics that were being played within the tech industry and grew increasingly concerned with how underappreciated my skillset in tech appeared to be becoming in the eyes of the industry to the point that I was beginning to consider converting over to a different field.
Right around this time, it came to my attention that an Elementary Computer Lab Assistant role had recently opened and was desperately in need of filling in the Robertson County School System; The single place that had given me an interview for an IT Admin Position earlier on in my search. While I didn't get the IT Admin Position (As I was severely underqualified given the scale of the role), since it appeared that no-one else wanted the Computer Lab Assistant role, I figured I'd give it a try to see if I liked it. And I LOVED it!
Currently, I am working towards attaining a professional teaching license in order to begin my career as a certified teacher. After reviewing several documents, I should currently have met all of the requirements for entering into an Educator Prep Program that can sponsor an occupational teaching license for me to work towards this goal. Now I simply await an opening for a High School Computer Science Teacher position within the School System and hope to receive an offer in order to truly begin my career in teaching!
Professional Life aside, I tend to spend my free time outside of work tinkering with my Homelab, and when I'm not, I can usually be found working on various personal projects, or Relaxing while watching Japanese Media(ゲーム実況、TRPG配信、アニメ、などなど).