About
The journey, honestly.
This isn't a career reset. It's the same underlying instinct — build things that are clear, fast, and genuinely useful to the person on the other end — pointed at a new medium.
2+ years
Where I started
Two-plus years as a Frontend Developer, shipping real, client-facing products end to end — from marketing sites to interactive UIs. I got comfortable owning a project from a blank page to something people actually use.
The turn
Why data pulled me in
The parts of frontend work I kept gravitating toward were the analytical ones — performance metrics, user behavior, the "why" behind a number, not just the interface displaying it. Over time that curiosity turned into wanting to work with data directly instead of just building the screens it shows up on.
What transferred
The skills that carry over
User empathy becomes stakeholder-focused analysis. Component thinking becomes data pipeline thinking. Debugging a broken render becomes debugging a broken query — same loop, different tools. I'm not starting from zero; I'm starting with habits that already apply.
What I'm building now
Starting deliberately, not randomly
I'm working through structured courses in SQL, Python, and statistics first, with certifications to follow once the fundamentals are solid — and building small practice projects along the way rather than waiting until I feel "ready" to start applying what I learn.
Where I'm headed
What I'm looking for now
A junior Data Analyst role or an internship — somewhere I can keep learning quickly on real problems, with people more experienced than me to learn from. I'm early in this, and I'd rather be upfront about that than oversell it.
Why this combination matters
Most analysts hand off a spreadsheet. Most frontend developers never ask why a metric moved. I'm still early in building the data side, but I already know it's not a tradeoff — a dashboard that's both statistically sound and genuinely pleasant to use isn't a nice-to-have, it's the difference between an insight that gets acted on and one that gets ignored.
See that in practice →