I graduated from Carnegie Mellon and May of 2019. And when I first went to CMU, that is where my journey kind of started. So beforehand I knew that I wanted to do something related to engineering. I knew that I liked working with my hands over problems, and I was also fascinated with the world around me and I wanted to learn more, and I wanted to be able to quantify certain things that I saw in the real world. And I felt like engineering was a good step in that direction. And so I went to see him. You I, uh I picked my may dress, mechanical engineering, and I kind of with that path. And at the time I was thinking, Okay, I was gonna go into engineer and I was gonna be an engineer. Hopefully work a company like Boeing or Lockheed Martin, you know, be doing something related to engineering. And then after I came to see him, you I found out that they had a dual degree program with robotics, and so I was actually very interested in robotics at the time. And so I was like, OK, that sounds like something super interesting. That sounds like something that I might want to do. Um, then So, as part of my degree with firemen, I had to take an introductory programming class. So my thought process was Let me take this class this spring of my freshman year and will give me a good introduction of program in, and that will give me a good fuel for this robotics major that I'm also going to be doing. And so during this time, I was also working as a desk attendant for one of the housing deaths on campus and is actually for the maker space out at our school. And so I was working for the desk. And so while I was taken this program in class at the end of it, we needed to complete the term project. And so for our maker space, you know, we tracked things with Google Sheets and, you know, Google docks and things like that. But it was kind of clunky to manage all of our stuff. And it was there is no good way to keep track of the inventory. And that was part of my term project. I decided to build an employee management and inventory Web system that helped keep track of complete performance and help manage the spaces. Inventory and the department actually like that project and like my work so much that they brought me or do not only make that for the maker space, but then to bring that product to all of their desks all across campus. And through that, I really learned that that stuff that I really enjoy do I really liked solving those problems, working with Web systems, you know, having something quick in front of me. I think one of the biggest differences to me between mechanical engineering, it's, you know, the work that I do now. This development is that it was very quick turnaround. I could do something that I see my results instantly, whereas engineering there was a little bit more time and effort that used to go into it. So once I have figured out that that I really like this work, I actually decided to take that system and market it across campus, the other deaths and other maker spaces across campus and actually got a lot of interest, and I was brought on board to build a few more of those systems, and so don't at time. You know, that was pretty much span mice, sophomore, junior and middle of senior year, and I So I was really enjoying that work, and I was really something that I enjoyed. And so right now, I'm, ah, software developer suffered melting temperature is my title. And, you know, um, as part of that process, you know me discovering that I like working with Web systems, and I like writing code and things like that and realised that I should probably try to find a development job instead of an engineering job, and that's correlated in the position that I'm in right now.

So I do work at Inertia LLC. I'm Anakin. Er show we have a product called Go Boost. Go Boost is a marketing platform to help contractors and large organizations with general marketing and really trying to reach customers and build their online reputation. It's part of, you know, part of my role actually is I manage the entire system. And so I do have a boss my boss and I meet daily on. I get guidance from my boss, who is the head of software development as long with the head of product, and we all meet periodically and talk about where the product should go. And then after we all talk and decide what you know, what, we need to work our next to what our road map looks like for the next month or so. Then that's when I take that stuff. And then I either give it to my interns to do, or I'll take it myself and complete it. And so you know, most days I do work a lot. That spy choice. My company only requires 30 hours a week, they believe, But most weeks I work, you know, quite a bit more than that Just because, you know, a lot of people say that if you find a job that you enjoy, you never work a day in your life. And I could definitely as to that right now, because you nice to work a lot of work, a ton of ours and stuff like that. But to me, you know, I don't really notice it because I'm enjoying everything that I'm doing. If I'm driving around, I'll think of a problem to solve or something like that. And that's just because I enjoy this work so much. I think you know, I average about 50 to 60 hours a week, but you know, im Ah, young young guy. So it's not too bad for me now, so or coverted. We actually did have an office, so the company was remote. Initially, for the first few years, I've started to bring more people on. We started to get office. So my senior year at sea of you that right before we we got our first office based. So once I decided that I wanted to work for this company full time, and they wanted to bring me on board that we started to look for office space and we actually got a shared office space, a bakery square. So we're right there with Google and other big tech companies. So it's nice for us to be around all these large tech companies. I mean, we have a shared office or had a shared office space there. Obviously, with Cove it We are all working from home now. And because it's a shared office space, I was month to month so we can put our subscription and we are probably going to go back. Once things die down before the next, you know, for the good foreseeable future, we will all be work home. I didn't travel too much for my job, you know. My commute was about 10 minutes down the road to my office, but that was about it. But there is a little bit of traveling, For example, I know that, you know, in the product head of product, they go to different sort of conventions around and trying our get to those at those conventions and things like that before me. There is not a lot of trouble

I think the biggest challenge that I do with now is just a lot of projects that want. So each month, the CEO head of product in ahead of software will meet and decide on what our product product road map looks like for the next month. And then from there is pretty much given to me on. And then you know, all manager at that when I think you know, the hardest part is trying to manage many projects at once. So it would be very common for me to be working on two or three different features are, you know, additions at one times hopping from one to the next. You know, as I get bored, I want to move to something else. So I would definitely say that that's probably the hardest. And then I you know, I think that just working remotely adds another layer of complexity that it was very different than working face to face in the office. So, for example, my interns, I have two of them this summer and last time when I had my intern, we will work, you know, face to face. He would sit right next to me and if you ever had a question, I would be able to help him, and I was able to help mentor him a lot more and a lot more closely than I'm I can do now. Now over video chat. There's only so much that I could do this. Oh, you know, my response time can only be so quick because I have to see the message on slack and respond to it. And, you know, most of the time I'm working on a second monitor or deep in my work, and I don't even see the messages go off. And so, you know, I think that aspect just be ever adds a whole another labour to it. I definitely say that, you know, meeting face to face helps you know as much as possible and just trying to keep an open communicate. And I think that I found the biggest helpful aspect that I, you know, have implemented has been keeping open line of communication with everybody else at that company because it really helps me, you know, track and stay on track with the places that sorry, but the work that needs to get done as well as seeing what everybody else does Company