Ethan Bustamante

Hi, my name is Ethan Bustamante, and I am a back-end software developer whose journey began way back in childhood years from a simple interest in computers.

Team collaboration has always been a joy for me growing up and even now; it's even more of a joy when the collaboration reaches a team win. Growing up I played sports such as basketball and football and there was nothing better than a team jumping up and down over the win we just had. Later on in my life, I was able to rediscover this joy when I took a computer science class in high school and I worked with a team to make a game like the Google "Run!" game. It took some time, problem solving, and dealing with a lot of bugs but we achieved the functionality and a team win. This class introduced my interest and passion for tech; tech having collaboration, challenges, and endless continuous learning; later I enrolled in Turing School of Software and Design in the Back End program.

This program brought many new skills and helped developed them in the process and throughout the time of the program. During the countless team projects, I was able to continuously learn both independently, through being resourceful, and also through collaboration. Throughout Turing I was able to realize that being a team can also be fun and rewarding. When working with teams, it was really a joy to sit and be receptive to the team and their thoughts and opinions, and then it was also a joy to contribute and bring new ideas to the table. I continue to look forward to bring an open receptive mind to team collaboration and I look forward to the joy from the team wins.