It’s ETINI UNAAM, YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPER, here with you today. Just in case you didn’t get it the first time, I LOVE solving problems. Yes, I’m the guy who sees a bug and thinks, “Finally, some excitement!!”

I’m a 21-year-old software engineer based in Uyo, Nigeria. My journey started with taking ideas from rough sketches on paper and compiling them into something people can actually use. Now we debug bugs and fight cybercrime.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. My journey started with HTML and CSS. I still remember when writing the syntax of a single HTML page felt like defusing a bomb. Looking back, I can’t believe that question was worth 15 marks and I was out here sweating like the server room AC had died.

The real love story began during my mobile development internship with React Native. That’s where I found out coding isn’t as scary as it looks, and somewhere between typing code and watching it miraculously run, I fell into the rabbit hole. There was no stack trace to climb out with, and honestly, I stopped looking for the exit. I now live here.

From there, I moved to Python, where I learned OOP, data structures, and file handling by building scripts and small games. Some of those games worked on the first run. Okay, that was a lie. I once spent three hours hunting a bug that turned out to be a missing colon. Thank John McCarthy and Alan Turing for AI. N.B: We don’t talk about that day.

I picked up SQL and Excel and use the skill to turn messy data into clear answers: SELECT insights FROM chaos; Along the way, I also picked up a thread: cybersecurity. Now I think about data protection and edge cases from day one, because I’ve seen what happens when someone says “nobody will ever type that into the form.” Spoiler: somebody always does. The best time to patch a vulnerability is before it ships. The second best time is before the hackers send you a thank-you note.

Today, I’m Junior IT Lead at C-City Inc., mentoring entry-level data analysts. If you have a junior role, internship, collaboration, or freelance project, please inbox me. I’m open to work.