My name is Sonja, also known as faltzuthewiz. I am a Finnish business IT student and this is my portfolio site.

I started my journey to become a software developer in the beginning of 2021. I was a fairly fresh Management Assistant graduate (my major was 'meetings and events'. I graduated a couple months after the pandemic started. "Yippee!") and I had been working as an assistant for a few years. I had realized that my true passion involves technology, always has. I attended some online courses and did the exercises whenever I could while having a fulltime job. In 2021–2022 I was volunteering as a mobile app developer for the Finnish Scouts Association.

In the spring 2022 I quit my job as an assistant, so I could focus on studying IT. I decided to get a bachelor's degree from the field of IT in Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences - the very same place where I got my first BBA degree.

I am majoring in software development, but I have also been doing some courses related to networks, information security, software testing and AI. My target to graduate is in 2025.

Combining studies and work has not been always easy, but I have been able to get experience from different IT jobs while studying. In my first semester in 2022, I had a short internship as a web developer, when I built a TKI.fi website for Arene – the Rectors' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences with WordPress Elementor. I have worked in IT Help Desk in summer 2023. The next summer I worked in the IT Department of HUS, the biggest healtcare provider in Finland, as a application engineer intern.

In free time, I love reading comics and spending time in the nature. I also love playing and learning about video games, and especially watching other people play old Nintendo games. One of my passions has been developing alcohol-free student culture and that's why I started a geek student club when I studied my first degree.

Skills

• Most of my coding experience is in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. I have used these in my own projects, at school and in two work projects.
• I have been studying Java and SQL in Haaga-Helia UAS. For example I made a board game site as a back end course project with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. My completed training projects are found on GitHub.
• Currently I'm learning Full Stack Development with React and Node.js. I am using the course materials provided by the University of Helsinki.
• I have also used a little bit of C# and Python. I have used C# in simple games made with Unity. My dream is to make a indie game on my own. I have used Python in a course called "The Basics of Data Analytics".
• A few highlights from my previous work tasks: I have handled data, done requirement specification & documented and reported my findings.
• As I mentioned before, I used to be an assistant. So you know, the languages I know are not related to just programming. I can communicate well with Finnish and English, and somewhat in Swedish and German. I also understand business, time-management, prioritizing, teamwork etc...

Plans for the future

I would like to get a job in the field of IT as soon as possible, since the best way to learn for me is hands-on experience. Since I am about to graduate soon, I am looking for long-term commitment opportunities from my next job!

My long-time plans are becoming a ICT professional, publishing a comic and owning a summer cottage in the countryside.

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