A little history ✨
My name is Hammad Javed, I am a 24 year old Web Developer from Faisalabad, Pakistan. I have completed my Bachelors in Computer Science from NCBA&E university, Lahore 🎓.
Before getting into web development, I used to be a tech savvy person, tinkering with my devices to make them work as I wanted them to, rooting them, jailbreaking them and automating them. I was in the habit of writing small, Python based CLI apps/scripts, automate stuff with Tasker, AutoHotKey and so on.
That made me realize that programming was natural to me 👨💻, I should try to persue my career in it, so I did!
My web development journey 🌈
In 2022, I stepped into the world of web development after finishing my Bachelors in Computer Science. I hadn't touched any web stuff during those 4 years of study, but I used to hear about it from other colleages. It felt interesting 💫 to me and I couldn't wait to try it out.
So finally the day came, 09 March 2022, when I wrote my first "Hello World" in HTML 😅. I took 2 bootcamp courses from Jonas Schemdtmann over on Udemy and I'm ever so grateful for them. Jonas' way of teaching was amazing and I highly recommend Him to everyone. It was just the beginning of course and I kept exploring more.
What all that means is that I became a self-taught web developer, degree in CS barely made a difference for me.
So I continued, at first I thought of going with just the Frontend, but soon I realised I was capable of more 😤, I was fluent with programming, I could give clients a full product from front to back, so I went with the Full-stack route.
I first learned React, then the MERN stack and then NextJS started getting noticed by everyone, so I tried it out and immediately I also fell in love with it 😍. NextJS provided a lot of neat features like file based routing, lazy loading content, SSR / SSG, image optimizations and much more, basically taking a little burden off of us developers.
Active in the community 🔥
I keep up-to-date with the ever so expanding world of web development. I'm active on Twitter/X, Discord and other newsletters, though I rarely post myself 😅.
Beside web development ⚡
If I'm not on React, I spend some time with Python. Just some basic scripts you know. I have built a Spotify script called Unify to locally save and sync my Spotify playlists, it might get taken down 🤫.
Soft skills ⭐
I'm a natural mentor as well, I help my friends all the time, trying to give them a roadmap or heads-up for something they wanna accomplish, whether it's regarding coding or their careers.
My education 👨🎓
I am a graduate of Computer Science:
- Intermediate of Computer Science (Superior College, Faisalabad)
2016 - 2018 - Bachelors of Computer Science (NCBA&E University, Lahore)
2018 - 2022
and that's it!