Introduction to Me

I like to yap a lot so if you want you can skip to the summary on the bottom if just want the gist of it

I graduated from BCIT about 7 months ago and since then I have had nothing new to add to the experience section of my resume. Like any other person existing in this job market I am a bit fatigued with the whole thing but I understand why I may not be the first choice of the recruiters looking at my resume even if I believe that I should be looked at more seriously as a candidate.

So what am I supposed to do then? Give up on trying to find a job until the market normalizes a bit? Well there is no way to know if it ever will.

Should I just keep doing what I've been doing during the last half a year? As much as I like ramming my head into the same wall over and over I think something needs to change somehow. I need something BIG, something Fancy, something that no recruiter can ever ignore.

After giving it a lot of thought I have come up with the perfect answer. I will create... A BLOG.

In this day and age of AI no project can be good enough to elevate a candidates profile because it could have been just created by AI and there is no way to know if it represents the candidates skill level. So just making projects is not enough, I have to document every single touch of the keyboard and stroke of the stylus to prove my skills as a new grad.

I do this not because I am against AI, I want to do it in order to show that as a developer I can do it all without having to use AI.

So my prompt engineering days are over and now it is time for me to return to making buggy programs the good old fashioned way.

I am now going to introduce myself and experience a bit because this is supposed to be an introduction to me.

Who am I

As you might have learned from the domain of this website my name is Pouyan Norouzi and I am a recent graduate from the CST program at BCIT.

I'm currently working part-time as an Apple Service Technician at London Drugs. I started as a general Tech Specialist and got promoted into the Apple role, which has been its own crash course in troubleshooting under pressure (people are a lot less patient than compilers).

As well as computers I'm very passionate about games, music, movies and football (soccer).

Projects

I consider poudb and FLUX to be the most complicated projects I have made to this date. I was working on poudb on & off for a year before I decided I was done with it. It is my own in-memory database engine written in C. It still lacks some key things that I wanted to include from the start like concurrency. I was planning on adding them later but I got busy with other stuff so I just focused on making something finished. I also made FLUX as an application to be able to test to see the database in action in a recipe app. Very original I know thank you for saying that.

During school, I had to make many a project. Some highlights are:

• Faasify: An e-commerce platform I made in a group of 11 people that we deployed on AWS. It taught me a lot about conflicts in git and physical space(hands were thrown). I was in charge of making the real-time messaging features which I made using bun's websocket features.
• Memeify: A meme generation app where you upload a picture and it generates a caption for you. It had 3 components: frontend, backend and the fastapi server where the model was hosted. The HTML/CSS frontend would send an image to our backend which would in turn send the image to the model server which would generate a simple caption of the image. That caption was then sent to the OpenAI API in order to generate the mostly unfunny meme captions. I mostly worked on the backend and the fastapi server.
• Industry Sponsored Student Projects(ISSP): We also had a couple of ISSP projects to work on where we worked with actual stakeholders of real applications. One of them was Conscious Connections which was a dating app with Next.js. The other was Accountium which was accounting software made with C# and HTML/CSS/JS.

What now

One project I did not mention in the projects section is Pouyan Web Services (PWS). It is in practice just a sftp clone using C and libssh library. I had grander visions for it in the beginning, it was supposed to be a mini cloud platform for my raspberry pi. I did not know anything about the cloud then I kind of just wanted to learn. So it just ended up being kind of basic. When I finished it I felt proud of what I had accomplished but looking back at it I think I can do better.

That is why now I want to do a complete rewrite in C++. Well I don't even want to do a rewrite, I just want to keep the name. It's probably going to be either my own ssh/sftp like protocol or an easy way for myself to be able to manage and deploy projects on my raspberry pi. The latter is the one I'm leaning towards right now but before that I have to learn the damn language.

So now I will go read a book. Bye

Summary

So to recap: I graduated, the job market humbled me a little, and I have decided to build this blog to try to show my ablities a bit. I've made a database engine from scratch, an e-commerce platform with a team of eleven, a meme generator, and a handful of other things that nobody asked for. I'm not done either, PWS is getting a rewrite the second I actually learn C++. This blog is basically me putting my money where my mouth is instead of just claiming I can build stuff.

TLDR; I am great please hire me