Lore

Hey, I'm Yazdun. I'm a software engineer.

I started writing code in 2019, but I've been exposed to tech almost my entire life. I built lots of random apps in Microsoft WinForms and WPF when I was a kid, besides playing loads of video games.

It never occurred to me that I could do programming for a living until around 2018. After graduating high school, I skipped college and tried to become a real estate broker. I worked in real estate for over a year, made a bunch of money, but ultimately it was clear as daylight that it wasn't for me.

In late 2018, I quit my real estate job, bought a laptop, and started learning to code. I knew a bunch of concepts in C#, but it didn't take me long to realize it's hard to get hired in that field + I never liked C# that much.

I learned to code from freeCodeCamp (shoutout to Mike Dane for all his free courses on fcc). I tried a bunch of different languages but finally landed on Javascript and React.

I actually went through Netlify & found the early react apps I created, like this online bookstore I built in early 2021. But my ultimate project that landed me a job was this nextjs ecommerce store.

At that point, I was pretty active in the FrontendMentor community too. I submitted lots of challenges and contributed to other people's code in that community, it was fun. (shoutout to Matt for helping me out and many others in the community.)

I landed my first SWE job in september 2021 at a startup as a founding engineer. They'd just raised a seed round when I joined em. I was clueless at the time and hardly knew anything about startups.

We worked in a shared workspace with a few other startups and a mobile game studio, which was pretty cool.

My core responsibility was building the react codebase for an e-learning platform and handling almost anything UI/UX related. I designed a handful of landing pages on the fly, I also learned a lot about devops and backend engineering + you know how startups work, tight deadlines and all. But I was hooked. one month in, and I knew I was built for this.

At its peak, we had around 10k users, but we failed to monetize the product. By early 2023, the company ran out of money and shut down in april 2023. I was there until the very last day, and then I left.

By this time, I was obsessed with programming and startups. Not long after, in may 2023, I ran into a founder on AngelList who was looking for a dev to build a CRM-ish product. The idea looked interesting, we connected, and shortly after, we became co-founders.

Around the same time, I joined freecodecamp as a technical writer and published a few handbooks and tutorials. The most successful one has been the react typescript handbook, which has around 100k views.

Anyway, I built the mvp, we called the company ClientView (later we rebranded to Supametric) and we onboarded our first paid customer in november 2023, slowly onboarding a few others after that.

At that time, I was writing code 24/7, pulling all nighters, pushing to prod, breaking prod, anydesk-ing to customer devices, you name it.

I did tons of system design, learned a ton about postgres and database architecture, security and pentesting, devops and linux. it was incredible.

We never raised money (2 YC rejections, yay!) and kept bootstrapping while searching for pmf.

In may 2025, after 2 years of not finding pmf, I decided to leave the company and focus on low level programming and oss.

Experiences

Publications

• React-TS handbook
• Linked lists handbook
• Queues handbook

Socials

• GitHub
• X (Twitter)
• Telegram