Mauricio Urrego
I became interested in technology from a very young age. My parents took note of this and sent me one summer, when I was 10, to a camp to study robotics. I programmed sensors for a custom robot using Java and fell in love with the complex simplicity of it all. Much like the internet, the world of computer science is a web of many disciplines. When beginning to understand one of its many facets you soon realize just how vast of a world it can be.
Feeling that I spent too much time growing up in front of a computer monitor I decided to study something outside of my comfort zone that I wanted to get more familiar with. This turned out to be the world of marketing, economics, and of course, what is tying it all together now, Information Systems. So what I thought would be a break from technology led me right back to where I started, learning about logic gates and assembly, I studied Information Systems at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University of Chicago. After taking this detour and working at a company called ACCO Brands, using SQL and Python on a daily basis and working in their backend databases, I decided to take a deep dive back to my roots.
It was certain that tech was the path for me because when I tried to deviate from this path I ended up right back in it, with a keyboard in hand and a terminal in front of me. So knowing this confidently, I decided to hone in on my web development skills by learning in depth the languages of the web: Javascript, PHP, and of course HTML, CSS, and every other little piece that I needed to know to bring it all together like the command line and git. With these skills equipped I found my first steps in freelancing working on small sites here and there and making a living. It felt a bit lonely though and I didn’t see my skills really improving very much on my own so I continuously looked for others to work with.
I worked for a small agency in Florida but where I think I really found my footing is here at netzstrategen. Here I really feel like I am learning something new every single day and I do not see myself stagnating again any time soon. I love every part of what goes into making a great web experience and having a team to share the process with is probably the most rewarding thing in my life right now. I’m happy to be a strategian and I am very much looking forward to what is coming next.
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