From Data Entry to Senior Full-Stack: eight years of career

Eight years ago I didn’t know how to code. My first job in tech was data entry at Run0km: customer support and contact gathering, no code involved. Today I’m a Senior Full-Stack developer. In between there was a technical degree, a Product Owner role, years building chatbots, and a company change I didn’t see coming.

If I had to draw one conclusion from these eight years, it’s that the career wasn’t a tidy ladder. It was more a series of opportunities I took when they showed up, even when I didn’t feel 100% ready: learning C# to get access to the source code, leading a team of four people without having led anything before, moving from one company to another in the middle of a very formative stretch.

What I value most is that every stage —even when it felt like a detour at the time— ended up being the foundation for the next one. Customer support taught me to understand the real problem behind a request. Being a Product Owner taught me to prioritize and communicate. Chatbots taught me APIs, integrations, and thinking in terms of full systems, not just code.

I’m still at it: learning, writing, building things. This page is, in part, a recap of that path — and a way to put it in writing before moving on.