Reflecting my Journey

I started my career without any intention of ending in coding!..
Like all teenagers I was so unsure about my career, all I did was go with the flow. I didn't make it to the Engineering entrance instead I didn't know what I wanted to do. I graduated with a computer science major and that was my baby steps to coding.

Then I completed a Master's in Computer Application and that was beam to my foundation. Learning new programming languages and developing minor projects started becoming my new hobby. Completing challenges and Hackathons on Techgig and Hackerrank started becoming a passion.

I started my blogging journey 5 years back with dev.to and I completely became known for it at work. I keep receiving appreciation from my colleagues for my blogs.

Before starting my blogging journey I was very skeptical about my work. What if someone criticizes it? What if no one reads it?

To get out of my Imposter Syndrome, I drafted a blog and gave it to my friend to read and he helped me with little bits and pieces and gave his strong shoulder to publish it.

To my surprise, my first drafted blog String.Compare() or String.Contains(), the best way to compare strings has 3579 views to date.

One of my blogs on Javascript: Predicate has 10000+ views to date.

A good ingredient for success for me is supportive friends, family, and colleagues but also self-doubt.

Until you question your skills you won't know what you are capable of.

And you cannot overcome uncertainty, failures, and fears until you embrace them.

Happy coding to all Women coders out there.