hello_world.sh

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whoami

Hi! I’m Diego, a self-taught software engineer with 3+ years of experience, I mainly focus on web development, but recently have leaned a bit towards DevOps and cloud development. I started my journey with freecodecamp and their course on HTML and CSS, then moved on to the javascript one but didn’t finish it. Although it’s a great resource it didn’t quite fit my learning style. I then found out about cs50 and that’s when I realized that I enjoyed software development, and haven’t stopped learning ever since!

Before I got into software development, I was an electrical engineering student in the Universidad del Zulia, but couldn’t finish my degree due to the humanitarian crisis my home country was going through and I decided to emigrate in search of better oportunities.

A picture I took on my first day of college back in 2013

Although I didn’t finish my degree, I still got a lot of math background from it. I also got my first interaction with coding, a programming course I took in the second semester taught in Fortran! It was the best grade I ever got in college, maybe a premonition of sorts 😄.

echo $HOME

I was born in Venezuela 🇻🇪, lived 4 years in Chile 🇨🇱, and finally settled back in 2023 in Spain 🇪🇸.

uname -a

Although I’ve used a lot more Technologies and languages, here are the ones that I could call myself competent with:

cat my_learning_resources.txt

Over the years I’ve used many different resources but here are some of the ones I recommend in no particular order:

• Midudev’s youtube channel The goat ❤️
• Eloquent javascript Great book btw
• FullStack open Another great resource
• Learning how to learn Pivotal resource on my journey
• Leon’s #100Devs Excellent resource as well

And everything else was mostly me trying something new and reading the docs.

pwd

I’m currently finishing a DevOps bootcamp at boolean and also preparing for a Google Cloud certification via the innovators get certified program. Other than that I’m still searching for my first official developer role.

2025 update: I already finished the bootcamp and got the google certification 🎉

I’m still searching for a job though 😅

tree ~/Documents/interests

Here’s a summary of my interests:

.
├── music
│   ├── favorite_band
│   │   └── dream_theater.txt
│   └── instrument
│       └── electric_guitar.txt
├── videogames
│   ├── top_5
│   │   ├── fallout_new_vegas.txt
│   │   ├── outer_wilds.txt
│   │   ├── resident_evil_franchise.txt
│   │   ├── final_fantasy_viii.txt
│   │   └── shadow_of_the_colossus.txt
├── Linux
│   ├── terminal
│   │   ├── tuis_and_cli_programs.txt
│   │   └── trying_new_tools.txt
│   └── ricing
│       └── customization_and_aesthetics.txt
├── card_games
│   ├── Yugioh
│   │   └── previously_played.txt
│   └── magic_the_gathering
│       └── currently_playing.txt
└── anime
    ├── top_5
    │   ├── steins_gate.txt
    │   ├── one_piece.txt
    │   ├── kimetsu_no_yaiba.txt
    │   ├── fma_brotherhood.txt
    │   └── monogatari_series.txt

My slick setup 🍚

man current_tool_stack

In short, this is what I use every day in my dev setup:

My neovim setup

jq '.' randomFactsAboutMe.json

{
  "random_facts": [
    { "fact": "I'm Scorpio." },
    { "fact": "I'm vegan." },
    { "fact": "My favorite food is lasagna." },
    { "fact": "I have curly hair." },
    {
      "fact": "I've played RE4 so much I remember all the treasure locations."
    },
    {
      "fact": "I spent 2 weeks playing Dota nonstop, totaling 9 days of playtime."
    },
    { "fact": "My longest Dota 2 match was 1h24m" },
    { "fact": "My handwriting is horrible." },
    { "fact": "I love coffee, especially milk coffee with Oatly Barista." }
  ]
}

exit 0

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I really appreciate it ❤️. If you’re interests are the same as mine, I plan on posting regularly here, who knows, maybe you’ll find things that will help you.

Until next time and happy coding! 🤘