Some other passions which get me going are running, cooking, doodling.

Formerly, I was a Graphic Designer (I actually went to college for Illustration, painting and Graphic Design) who started their coding journey when a client asked if I'd work on some mini-sites using Flash. Little did I know working with ActionScript was a little foreshadowing; As sometime later I would learn JavaScript—both being implementations of ECMAScript. That put me on a track where each job seemed to add more experience with the Web platform. That culminated in me procuring a Developer position at Avon Inc. in 2012.
This was a fantastic time because I was constantly implementing all these patterns and best practices while learning about them. At some point though I realized I needed to fill in some gaps in knowledge—so I decided to enroll in FullStack Academy; It focuses on learning JavaScript on the front and backend. As of late I recently graduated from FullStack Academy (by recently I mean 2/16/18).

Honestly they're many things, but I have to say, there is nothing like having a recently learned concept applied to a current problem or pattern.