I'm Jack, a computer engineering student at Texas A&M, senior. My main thing is just solving problems really quickly and faster than anyone else. I love being forward thinking in technology and trying to do the newest and best thing possible. I'm just obsessed with making things fast.
I love networking. I've taken a lot of networking classes at A&M over the years, including this four hundred level class I completed last semester. I'm a big fan of speed, keeping everything on the internet extremely fast. I know everything from the bottom hardware all the way up to the frontend software and I like optimizing the stack as much as possible with custom code and optimizations.
But here's what I realized from all that networking work: you can have the fastest backend in the world, but if people can't actually use the interfaces, all that optimization is pointless. Speed doesn't matter if people can't use what you built. I'd make these super fast systems and then watch people get confused trying to use them.
After graduation, I'm working mainly in software engineering, though my role will probably be from the bare metal of the servers themselves to the actual UI/UX. That's why I'm taking this class in human computer interaction. I want to apply all that technical stuff to real users and real people for the first time. I'm excited to learn the best practices for building real UIs for real users so the speed I care about actually matters to them as they can actually use the things I build.