I learned to build first, then learned to doubt it

I studied software engineering at the Technological College of Be'er Sheva between 2020 and 2024 — full-stack work in React Native, Node.js, MongoDB and SQL, alongside programming and cryptography in Java, C# and Python. The projects on this site were built in that period and after it, each one taken from an empty repository to something that runs.

Then I went the other way. I trained as a QA engineer at Qualitest and now do quality assurance at Bit, on financial platforms where a defect is not an inconvenience — it is somebody's money. Functional, regression, smoke and integration testing across backend microservices and the interfaces customers touch.

Testing changed how I build. When you have spent months finding the paths nobody planned for — the empty state, the slow network, the request sent twice — you stop writing code that only works on the happy path. That is what I would bring to a team: I write the feature, and I already know how I would break it.

I work in Arabic, Hebrew and English, and I spent time volunteering with the Perach project, mentoring students one on one. Both taught me the same thing about this job: the hard part is usually explaining it clearly to the person on the other side.