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If you are a potential employer or anyone else checking out my personal site (or anyone else interested), my online home for the developer side of my life resides at wrosswhite.ca and I encourage you to check it out!

I am a graduate of the Computer Systems Technology (CST) program Technical Programming option at the British Columbia Institute of technology (BCIT) in Burnaby, BC.

I'm so excited about what I’ve learned to do and I’m eager to get to it. There are so many things which I take for granted now which were so mysterious when I first got started. I’m excited about all there still is to learn, there are so many cool technologies out there!

I wasn't sure when I applied to the CST program. I knew I was into computers, I’d built my own PC and such, and I’d long been quite curious about what went on under the hood. I had a compatible curiosity, but couldn't know ahead of time if I'd enjoy the work. Turns out I do!

It was intimidating and frustrating being a total novice up against people who already knew so much in my first term, but by the end of the third term I genuinely felt like I was solidly catching up with my peers, not to mention all of those who didn't make it along the way. I am now quite proud to have made it all the way through, full course loads all along (no taking courses in the summer to lighten the load for me), no fails and when it was all said and done a solid 79 average. All told I’m pretty proud of my accomplishment. It took 12 hour days 6 days a week, a lot of hard work, a lot of luck, and a lot of help from friends along the way. Now I'm looking forward to my next challenges.

I currently work at Quartech as a full stack developer.  I have been with them almost two years now.  I work mostly remotely out of their Burnaby office working on various contracts, which allows me to consistently be learning new things.  I work with .NET/C#, TypeScript, SQL, and have experience with AngularJS, modern Angular, React, and Vue.js.  I have worked on segregating a legacy monolith project into discrete microservices as well as production deployment pipelines.