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==About Me: Sabrina Stangler==
Hi, I am Sabrina! I'm 24 26 years old, and I studied Software Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), graduating in 2020. I'm currently employed as a Senior freelance Software Engineer at RokkinCat my own company, Curious Bean LLC, where I build products & websites for startups, mostly local to Milwaukee, WI& small businesses.
I did my training for UIF in the winter of 17-18 and went to the Silicon Valley Meetup in Spring of 2018.
I make YouTube videos, play have also returned to the drums (UIF meetups as of 2021 lol), and I got into reading fantasy novels over 2020 - I recently finished reading all two dozen-ish of the Brandon Sanderson novels (within the Cosmere)a FAB for 2022 & 2023.
I ALSO very recently got diagnosed with ADHD (at age 23), as well as experiencing Anxiety for most of my life to this point. I've been on quite the journey through umm ... well ... suffering, finally being able to 1) afford therapy and 2) muster the courage to start therapy, and more recently starting medicinal treatment for both (which has overall been positive). I bring this up because reading these Wiki bios probably makes former Fellows seem like the most high achieving coolest folks around, which ''is true of course'', but I want to portray at least a little more wholistic version of myself.
I ended up leaving because 1) RokkinCat reached out to me (see below), 2) when I challenged things, I was met with "yeah that's a good idea, sounds very ''innovative'', but ...." and then met friction at every turn when I actually tried to take action, and 3) we never got to interact with and understand the users of our product, which was very frustrating, but also just "the way things were."
===Senior Frontend Engineer, RokkinCat===
''July 2021 - presentDecember 2022''
Bringing startups' product visions to life, mostly building mobile apps with Ionic & React. I also serve as the Product Manager for our website and helped develop our vision for content. I get to wear many different hats, and it's a blast.
I jumped ship from Direct Supply to this job with very little hesitation because:
* I knew a few of the current employees (small company, 10 total)* Working with startup founders* Get to interact with our clients directly* Only frontend development (I was formerly doing frontend & backend, and I don't fancy backend development)* Better culture - employee happiness driven, if you want to change things - make it happen, and work from anywhere anytime attitude ===Software Engineer + Product Manager, Curious Bean LLC (Self-employed!)===''January 2023 - Present'' Still bring startups' product visions to life, mostly building web & mobile apps with Ionic & React. Now I just do it freelance! RokkinCat shut down end of 2022, so with a single contract lead in hand, I dove head first into freelancing.
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