Raised on Technology
30 Jan 2025
At my roots
Being born in that middle age where modern digital technology was booming and growing at a rapid pace, it was only a matter of time before my life revolved around it. Down in the muggy, dimly lit basement of my grandparent’s house housed a variety of gaming systems, all to my heart’s content. All in one night, I would go from playing Battletoads in Battlemaniacs on the SNES to TMNT on the GameCube to Super Mario 64 and Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64. This quickly led to playing games on my Android tablet that I eventually found out about rooting and other things closely related. All this sparked my interest in becoming a game developer at a very young age, however, that idea went out the window overtime…
The middle age
Going into middle school, I became more indulged in technology and would want to tinker with them as much as I possibly could (mostly software-wise). I remember jailbreaking my iPod Touch with Phoenix and installing all kinds of tweaks that drained my battery to 0% in a few hours. I got a PS Vita, which quickly got homebrewed as well, and all of my phones have been jailbroken or rooted ever since. This interest of mine led me to take a coding class in High School because I wanted to be just like those people who hacked into things and thought it was super cool, until I found out that it wasn’t as easy as just pressing a button and things happening like magic. Through this coding class, however, I began to discover other branches of technology like robotics, web development, and aspects of software development, which are coming full circle now as I am refreshing myself with software development. I never really found anything that really interested me until I got to college, where I figured, why not try data science?
Current day
My interest in software engineering grew from the tinkering I did as a kid. My focus of what I wanted to do changed over time from game developer to cybersecurity to cloud development, but recently I had an interest in data science. For the specifics, I am not sure what exactly I want to do still, maybe machine learning engineer, but I do want to generally work with collecting and analyzing data, and with that data, I want to be able to create meaningful predictions and implement those predictions in a way to improve whatever it is that I am working with. It is a very general way to say what I want to do, but nonetheless, that is my current interest because I want to be able to understand the world in a way that mathematicians see the world. I want to be able to look at numbers and see why they are what they are and how they got there because that is what our world runs on, and I wouldn’t want to fall behind.