My Journey in 2 minutes.

My parents taught me to find answers on the internet. The internet taught me to build. I drew cartoon characters on paper before I had a computer. When I finally got one, I spent hours in Microsoft Paint. Nobody assigned it. Nobody taught me. I just liked making things appear on a screen.

I was 10 when I watched Tony Stark build an Iron Man suit in a cave. I wanted to build like that. My dad had one rule: if you want to know something, find it on the internet. So I did. I didn't end up building rockets or suits. Instead, I obsessed over how software worked. How websites loaded. How games ran. How apps came together.

My parents wanted me to study pharmacy or medical lab science. My exam results fell short, so they wanted me to rewrite. I chose Computer Science instead. My cousin Samuel studied Computer Science. I'd watched him type once and a website appeared. I wanted to make that happen. At CKT-UTAS, I built projects outside class. Not for grades. I couldn't stop building. Mawuli told me to ignore the curriculum limits. Kelvin showed me where technology was heading.

In my final year, my colleague and I built an election system for the SRC. Real candidates, real students, real votes. It crashed the first day. We stayed up all night and fixed it. The next day, students voted. Clean results came out. That's when I knew I was a developer.

The drawing never stopped. I'd always felt how things should look before I could explain why. When I discovered CSS, it clicked. Other developers treated it like homework. I treated it like Paint. I got better at both and stopped seeing them as separate things.

I'm doing my MPhil in Computer Science at KNUST while building. This year I realized I didn't want to be someone with skills. I wanted to be someone who thinks. Design engineering isn't a job title. It's building where you control both what it looks like and how it works.

There's much work ahead. I'm excited for the next decade. I'm grateful to my parents, the people who let me watch over their shoulders, and the internet strangers who showed me that I could build anything.