My story
The day I was born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name...
Wait, wrong story!
While my birth was not heralded by ancient powers-that-be, I personally
consider it a life-changing event nonetheless.
It was the year
1994
, when I was christened "Pritesh" by the
family. I grew up in a small town during the formative years of my life
devoted to video games - my "first" love. At my mom's insistence, I got a
library card - and fell in love a second time; this time with words. Well,
it was more pictures than words initially (looking at you Phantom &
Mandrake), but before long I was gobbling up Jeffrey Archer's and Dan
Brown's masterpieces. Finally, my friends dragged me to a new swimming
pool club that had recently opened where I formed my final love of
childhood days - swimming.
In the year
2010
, I moved to the city for higher studies. Here, I
got my first taste of things that would define my life for the coming
decade - Anime, Light Novels, and Programming! (Of course, excluding the
usual "firsts" of college days.) While the former two were quite
understandable, I won't lie about programming - I was downright flummoxed
by it at first. Only at first though. As I learned more about the ins and
outs of it, I was understanding a problem - dissecting it just so, then
wrestling to fit it into a paradigm, finally getting to a solution with no
more errors. And boy oh boy, when things work just the way you wanted
them? I still feel that exhilaration of a smoothly executed code-run
just as much as I did back when I printed my first ever "Hello, World!"
The year
2016
, fresh out of college, I was hired by a
multinational IT consulting firm through a hackathon. There I worked in
Innovations across varied projects for several clients and even dabbled in
some social experiments. Later on, I joined an IoT startup as a back-end
Nodejs developer, swiftly moving on to front-end React development as
well. Eventually, I found my way into React-Native platform, and thus my
professional moniker: Full Stack Web and Mobile App Developer, which
succinctly covers the core of what I do even today.
That was back in
2021
. Going through a couple of years of
pandemic brought forth old dreams of me to wonder what was holding me
back. I realized I had gotten comfortable in my spot. And thus, after a
tumultuous year of ups and downs, I managed to leave for Canada in the
fall of 2022. I decided to formally start learning Mobile App Development,
so got enrolled at Fanshawe for a degree in the same.
I graduated at the beginning of
2024
. The previous couple years
were spent enjoying a laid back college experience once more. I made some
of my closest friends here, had another set of ups and downs as you do,
and learned more about myself and my place in this world. Thence emerged
my current new passions: Diving and Camping. I became a certified open
water diver, and started taking every opportunity I could to dive into the
depths. Same for camping, although I only ever did single night campings.
I am fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work as a freelancer
with some of the best teams in the industry ever since I landed in Canada.
With the freedom of both time and finance, I went on some of the biggest
trips of my life so far - a trans-Canada coast-to-coast road trip,
Thailand, Indonesia, Dubai, Georgia etc. And so here I am, experincing all
that life has to offer and looking forward to what's to come. I've never
been more content.
If you're interested in my journey, check out the (self-proclaimed) best photos on the internet.