My Origin

... because Everyone is the Hero of Their Own Story

🙋‍♂️ I’m Nissan (🔊 nee-shaan). My name means flag in Bengali, since I was born on my country’s Independence Day. I’m a 32 year-old male currently living in Khulna, Bangladesh.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the 2000s with limited access to tech and the internet. But I’ve always been a technical person as far as I remember. I got my first smartphone in 2010 and my first computer in 2013 when I started a Computer Science degree at university.

Even without a computer, I was active in mobile theming, app modding, and custom ROM communities. I even hosted and managed a wordpress.org site for them in 2011-12 with the tiny 2.5-inch screen of my Nokia 5630 XpressMusic. That blog had over 185k+ views from 70k+ unique visitors.

My programming journey started with C in 2013. However, I wanted to make apps for my Android phone, so I started learning Java and Android Studio. This is the first app I made following the release of Material Design and new architecture guidelines from Google.

After I graduated in 2017, I started working as a freelance Android developer and made around 15 apps in two years. Then I decided to focus on designing in Figma because I always felt inadequate when designing app UIs. It was a good decision because I had so much fun designing my portfolio at that time.

Around the same time, I also started learning JavaScript to make a Chrome extension for myself. But after I got a taste of the innovation happening in web development, I never looked back. Since then, I have fully committed to Full Stack development. You can see what I’ve been up to on my projects and experience page.

If you’ve read this far, thank you for taking an interest in my story. Besides Software Engineering, I love talking about the latest gadgets, science, and technology. If you share these interests, feel free to say hi on Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, or @ni554n on most socials.

Peace! ✌️