sure. So how did I get where I got today? It's a big question. Uh, it's a story. You know, it's a life story, so but I'm not going to tell you my life story. I'll be quite brief. Uh, so I was born in Syria, in Damascus, and then, uh, life in Syria's challenging, to say the least. And, uh um, it wasn't easy. I went to school, like at the university level. When I reached that age, I felt that this is not a good place to start a career with. So I traveled to Saudi Arabia, things they did not work out, went back to Syria, travel to Switzerland. I got an opportunity to work with the United Nations. There was like a an admission test that I applied to. So we're hiring test. It's a competitive hiring event. So I applied for it, got, you know, got hired state in Switzerland for two years, then moved to the States. Uh, I moved to the States with no no degree. So I finished my degrees here, got my bachelor's degree and then got my, uh I got my masters degree in computer information systems. Um, this is on, you know, on deny. I continued working now, uh, in terms off my my skills. I started with working with Oracle eight I since the year of 2000, then just kept working as a as a database developer. I started, you know, it's like small projects and whatnot. And then, um, I kept like I even though sometimes I worked in fields that are not related to the technology field. But I kept, you know, uh, reviewing and being on top of the information just keep myself fresh and be abreast of the technologies and the updates. So, uh, technically, I'm a back end guy. I mean, for 20 years, almost. And then after after I got my, uh, my master's degree, I worked as an application developer for the United Nations here in New York City, then as a database administrator. And then, while I was there, I heared of of this boot camp so that the boot camp it will teach you like a back end. Yes, a back end coding language. But it also will teach you a front end, uh, component. So it will teach you a front and libraries. They react jazz. So I felt that this is this is what I need to move forward. So I it's it's a big investment. It wasn't It wasn't a it wasn't a, you know, an easy decision to go there. So, uh, stayed six months in the boot camp, like, two thirds through the boot camp. I found, like I met with someone by chance is the chief of the the chief of the Web development unit and the U. N. So little chat here and there. And then he offered me a job, so he knew where I was. And he said, I'm interested that you join my team. So I became a web developer for the United Nations, and I was I didn't finish the boot camp yet. Um, afterwards, I graduated state as a um yeah, a zey web developer. Um, for for maybe two years. And then I landed another job as a software engineer in one of the companies on part time basis. I teach at two universities. I teach a Baru College City University of New York. I teach a graduate class, uh, data warehousing and database management systems for Rutgers. I teach also at a D design school camp. So that was a brief story of a very long one

So, uh, when When I started it to you, I was a a software engineer for the like, participating with the data warehouse team. This is like where I was placed and then, like building pipelines, data pipelines and GTL, uh, projects for, you know, for to support the decisions of the higher management. And then and then I was moved, like, quiet, like into some places where brand new projects that they do need, uh they do need fresh blood, you know? And they need a like, people from different various backgrounds work on on those projects. So right now I'm a tech lead in there. So, um, yeah, uh, my focus mostly on automation. So codifying practices and business processes, what are the top three priorities and pain points? Uh, priority pinpoints pain points is maybe number one is when you when you when you do something that you love, um, it's it's quite stressful because you cannot let go, and you start you stop having a life on the side. So where humans in the end of the day? So you can't just keep keep working. You You'll find yourself to be alcoholic at some point. What else. It's, uh, the challenges with all of these distractions that they're taking place in this world. Nowadays, it's hard to focus. So focusing and staying on task and being living in this silo where you know you're the entire world is is living in the bubble of your living in your own bubble. So you can finish your project and be on top of the tasks. That is another, uh, a pinpoint. The third pain point. I don't have one, so yeah, I mean, these are the top two, baby, What strategies are effective in dealing with challenges? Uh, my my strategy is, uh, whenever there is a challenge, I would just if it's something that's humanly and most most problems are like that if the problem is humanly possible to be solved, I just break it down into small pieces, small chunks, you know, from a, uh, engineering perspective. Just break down the problem into small chunks that you can you can overcome, and things will be fine.

So, uh, you, like, t be able like to do like to conduct the the same tasks that I do. You you need a tech stack of, uh, designed patterns. Um, you need to be aware of, you know, like you have good system design skills. That's number one. Number two is, um, and equally important, it's your problem solving skills. So, uh, um, it's it's your engineering skills when you look at a problem and you try to digest it and and explain it to, you know, five year old, um, as a proof that you do understand the problem, Uh, this is this is a skill. It's not easy because you need to think abstract lee off the problems and be able to come up with the most optimal solution that serves the business needs frameworks. So the technology the technology is that I use Apache airflow Python. Uh, so I mean for databases, Post press, uh, Amazon redshift. Uh, I mean writing. I don't know. Sometimes writing lambda functions on aws um uh for the front end JavaScript for sure, But back end I Well, I didn't work with node, but I mean for the back end, mostly, I work with Golec. So that's the the, uh, next stop that I used