Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been facinated by technology. It was, and still is, so interesting to me. I loved watching my parents use their phones or our family desktop, intrigued by how everything worked. I even got introduced to PC gaming at school, with games like Arkanoid, that grew my love for it even more.

From there on out I not only wanted to learn more about it and try out all the latest gadgets, but also getting to tinker around with it and overcoming its limitations. One of my earliest achievements, which stands out the most, was jailbreaking an iPhone. It was so cool to me, being able to bypass the system’s rules and open up so many customization options.

Soon enough, I became the “IT guy” for my family and friends. Besides showing classmates at school how to jailbreak their phones, I got hooked on installing mods for my games on my laptop. It didn’t always go smooth, I sometimes bricked iPhones or got some random virus on my laptop from time to time. But, without experiencing these “mistakes” I would not have gotten a better understanding of troubleshooting.

A good memory of mine was back in high school, during the computer classes, that my friends and I tried to get admin privileges on the machines. At the time, it felt like we were being those cool hackers in movies, even though we were just messing around with settings and so on.

So yeah, these experiences got me quite interested in technology and is probably why I love programming so much today. It probably fueled my interest in problem-solving growing up.