From the age of 12 to 16 or so, I was trying to fix problems in my own computer. I had to learn ways to disable services and tweak it so that my very slow computer would perform like a not-so-slow computer. I managed to learn how to break and not break things, and, over time, I continued doing this—not just for my computer but also for my friends’ computers. It grew into something bigger. I started to charge people for what I had been doing for free. By age 19, I ended up founding my own company.
In about 2021, a friend told me to join him on Saturdays for a Cisco Networking Academy course. The course made me decide that maybe networking is my thing. I ended up going to the Networking Academy because I liked what I was learning and was bitten by the curiosity bug.