October marks DigitalOcean’s hacktoberfest, an event which I’ve had some participation in for the past two years. This event exists to encourage contributions to open source on GitHub.

This post is inspired by a tweet that I came across today from DigitalOcean:

If you’ve stumbled here, you’ve found my blog! You can find out some information about me on my about page, but here’s some more of my history.

I started in this field by building a small tiny company with a friend doing web design for local businesses while we were still in high school. We were doing what we thought to be some really cool stuff at the time, taking some bold design ideas and learning how to implement them. Once I started my degree at Northern Arizona University, I put anything web-related away for awhile while being taught the fundamentals of programming and data structures in Python and Java.