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Tae’lur Alexis
@TaelurAlexis
Security Analyst | I make infosec videos on YouTube ⬇️
Bangkok, Thailand
Born June 23
Joined September 2013
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    Today I hope this serves as motivation to those #codenewbies/ #100DaysOfCode devotees that it can happen. Pic on the left was January 29th, 1st day as a fast food server. $8/hr. Every day I walked home & coded for hours. Pic on the right is me as a dev, first day was July 29th
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    First day working remotely from Bangkok as a security analyst. 1000% happy my team supported the move
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    8 hour intense interview with no breaks just to be still told I’m not technical enough. I need a break from the interview process for the near future.
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    It happened. Today I was offered a Front-End Developer role and I will be relocating to Seattle. Words can't even express how I feel. I turned the pain that I felt losing my father into motivation. All of the doubts, the effort that I put in, I can now say I am an engineer. Wow.
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    Today I was told on stream that I wasn’t a real developer because I use VS Code, have built my blog in Wordpress and he found a landing page I built over a year ago using bootstrap. Some of these ppl in tech get off on gatekeeping to stroke their fake alpha ego and it shows
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    I repeat: You do not *need* to invest in a macbook to learn how to code. Don't listen to the biased devs, just worry about the portfolio youre building & skills you're learning
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    Y’all I just gave my talk on Securing React components. My anxiety was through the rooooof lol but I’m so happy.
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    A former friend who graduated w/ a CS degree told me back in 2014 that my chances of getting into tech would be slim to none bc I'm "not logical/technical enough" 5 years later I've taught myself how to code & became an engineer & he's asking me for advice on how to code 🤭🤭🤭
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    Behind every ambitious developer is a GitHub full of unfinished side projects and half abandoned notes
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    The same manager who rejected me for a Lead Front-End Engineer role saying that I lacked experience just hit me up today on LinkedIn for the same position praising my resume not remembering that I was the same person he interviewed with last week lmaooo I hate this
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    Replying to @truly_AD
    NOOOO LOL omg. I would start coughing 😭
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    Replying to @LammaticHama and @tesseralis
    I thought u were talking about the BET show lemme see myself out-
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    I got the job! I’ve accepted an offer to become a GRC Analyst! I’m so excited, I’ll be helping early to mid-staged startups build security programs to become compliant with standards like HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 27001 etc. AHHH
    I had the interview, I asked the hiring manager given my background & skillset how does that measure up to his ideal candidate and he said “you’re beyond it” 😅 and he said he could see me handling pentest opportunities as well as GRC. Next call is a meeting w/ the team 🙏🏽