I am a software engineer from Asheville, North Carolina where I've been living for the past 6 years. I spend my free time hiking the endless breathtaking mountain trails in the surrounding area, reading in the local coffee shops, and writing and performing music with my bandmates.Up until the summer of '22 my career consisted of customer service and team management. After 10 plus years of sharpening my communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, I was ready for new challenges in a more stimulating and rewarding environment. I was also looking for a work lifestyle that would better suit and support my creative interests. Having many connections in tech I felt a strong pull to enter the industry myself. So, never having been one to do things halfway, I signed up for a full-time, full immersion, web development coding bootcamp at Ironhack... I fell in love.Whereas I thought I was pursuing a means to support my artistic endeavors, what I discovered, to my surprise and delight, was a whole new passion. Coding allows me to access both the technical engineering and the creative problem solving sides of my brain in a way that nothing else ever has. Software engineering, web development, and the tech industry as a whole, provide a never ending flow of new challenges to overcome and new opportunities to learn and grow every day. I have without doubt found my happy place.