About Me — Yamo Gebrewold

How did I end up here? Medium has been a platform that I have been revisiting quite frequently. Therefore, I felt that I wanted to give back to the community by sharing some of my experiences and thoughts mainly about my own software development profession.

This is me 😀

So who am I? I am a software developer who is born and raised in Sweden, with roots from Ethiopia and Afghanistan. I have had a genuine interest for computers since I was a little kid, but I was never introduced to programming until later in my life.

Like many young people, I had no clear path that I wanted to take in my life or a real career that I wanted to pursue. It was first when one of my friends who is working as a software testing engineer spoke to me about coding and recommended an educational platform to me — FreeCodeCamp.org — that I started looking into programming. I went in there and started to learn web development slowly. Fast-forward three years — I got employed at a consultancy company in my own city while pursuing a college degree in Computer Engineering.

Having worked with software development professionally over a year, I have gained a bunch of insights that I know can be useful for people just starting out. It was a fun journey to get to where I am today, starting with nothing else but my own laptop and some spare time to invest in learning how to program. It was an…