How i became a Software Engineer in 3 months as a Self Taught

My friends before getting the job

Before i get my current job as a software engineer, i had a developer friend who used to tell me it’s hard to find a job, and that i have to study bachelor for years and more in order to work same as me, and another friend who used to always remind me that it’s impossible to find a good job more then $15/hour in USA without a diploma.

My plan to prove them wrong

I literally took the hard path with all patient and proved them both wrong, i stood home while doing a bad job for $125 a day for 4 days. only paying my rent 640 my expensive groceries, my car insurance 340 and gas 50. Had a great python/javascript course called cs50web, made lots of projects ecommerce instagram clone gmail clone, with modern designs, and applied for few jobs.

Long story short

I’ve got interview, they loved my projects and designs, and told me they liked me through the recruiter, got hired literally after three months studying code and making projects, every waking hours, only leaving laptop barely for eating and cooking, that’s all

Proud of my current job

And have learned already lots of terms that used to seem complicated, such as Azure Devops, CI/CD, Scrum, Agile, SalesForce, I worked with Javascript, jQuery, Ajax, XML, HTML, SCSS, ISML, SSR

After five months

I have jumped to svelte.js and learned it fast, then now i’m working with vue.js and learned it faster as well in few days based on my experience with svelte and react. also i study new things every single day and follow more courses

So far

Now my goal becomes shooting for Senior developer soon, and Lead Developer in less then 6 months. no one can tell me i can’t for sure lol. so total experience so far is 3 months study and 5 months contractor then full time. also i have solid graphic and ui/ux design experience. but now good that i added full stack experience.

My new goals

For the long future terms, i’m shooting for FANG and would love also to hear your experiments if any is also crazy like mine, or if you ever faced negative people who try to stop you from achieving dreams.

Last to say

If this is interesting topic, i can share more in depth, about how i learned, how i splitted my time, projects i made, etc .. thanks for reading till this point. please share your comment and let me learn something from you, since this is m first post here.
Thanks.

feel free to check my portfolio and give me feedback here on my previous works. with best regards.

Mohammed Fellak
Software Engineer, UI/UX Designer
www.fellak.com