Breaking Things to Build Things: My Journey to Software QA & Development

When I was six years old, no appliance in our house was safe. VCRs, remote controls, old radios—I had a compulsive need to take them completely apart just to see how the pieces fit together. Years later, my grandmother handed me a box and told me I was going to install a new doorknob. Standing there, aligning the internal latch mechanism, I felt a deep appreciation for mechanics. Precision mattered. When I took my first programming class with Visual Basic, that childhood itch came roaring back. I didn't just want to write code that worked; I wanted to understand the absolute limits of how and why it breaks.