You know those game ads where a hero with shiny weapons loses their whole arsenal, falls all the way down into a dungeon full of nasty adversaries and has to grit their way back up? That’s basically my career origin story.
I started my journey equipped with shiny modern Java and Spring Boot, but my first real dev job plunged me straight into the dungeons of lawless, framework-less legacy Delphi. I didn't just survive the drop; I fought the spaghetti monsters, mastered the tech stack in months, and became a "one-woman army." I took technical ownership of critical projects—including designing and implementing a new codebase management app from scratch—and successfully untangled massive bowls of spaghetti into neat, maintainable lasagna.
Now, armed with 2 years of battle-tested development experience, a bachelor's degree underway, and unbreakable resilience, I am clawing my way back to the surface to return to my roots: modern enterprise Java. Pair that technical grit with my 2+ years of prior professional experience in the financial sector, and I bring a unique useful build to your adventuring party.
- 🌍 TEAMMATES (Open Source Contributor): Actively contributing to a globally used, large-scale Java application. My focus has been on incrementally modernizing legacy architecture, replacing brittle GoF Singletons with pure Dependency Injection, and establishing safe testing seams without breaking production lifecycles.
- 💵 FinAdvise Planner: A Spring Boot CRM web app built for real-world financial advisory use cases as my main playground. I am directly leveraging my past career as a financial advisor to implement genuine business logic, client data management, and financial health analysis—bringing true fintech domain expertise into the code. [Work in progress]
- 🏗️ Enterprise Backend Magic (Day Job): Collaborating on the backend for the largest building supply chain in the country - think high performance, heavy lifting, and lots of data.
What I've learned ✅, what I'm working on 🟨, and where I'm headed ⬜:
- ✅ Modern Java (OOP, Clean Code)
- ✅ Spring Boot & REST APIs
- ✅ Relational Databases (MySQL, Oracle)
- ✅ Delphi
- ✅ JavaScript & React basics
- 🟨 Spring Security & OAuth2
- 🟨 Advanced Dependency Injection & Testability
- 🟨 CI/CD Pipelines & DevOps basics
- ⬜ Microservices Architecture
I'm open to new opportunities, so if anything caught your eye, here's where you can reach me:
- Programming (duh! 😄)
- Gaming
- Puzzles of all kinds
- Anime and K-Dramas
- Cooking (and eating)
- Outdoor activities (badminton, hiking, cycling, disc golf...)
- Adrenaline activities (bungee, rollercoasters...)
- Could sell ice to an Eskimo (communication skills, which come in handy for handling code reviews and project discussions)
- Can write my unit tests without rage quitting 10 times (self-control and perseverance)
- Animals and kids instinctively trust me
- Once spent 36 hours straight playing a new game, called it hell, but still couldn’t leave the campaign unfinished
- Once spent 48 hours straight coding a project for a hackathon, called it a cozy weekend in 😅
- I'm probably the most communicative programmer you'll ever meet
- I can name 20+ cat breeds on sight