Building Again: Why I’m Returning to Hands-On Learning
2025-05-16
I learned to code while studying engineering at McMaster. As my career moved into project management, I spent more time coordinating technical work and less time building things myself.
I wanted to close that gap. This site documents the projects I’m using to get back into hands-on development, starting with a Python game and moving into cloud infrastructure and healthcare workflow prototypes.
What I want to learn
Building gives me a different kind of feedback than reading documentation. A deployment fails, a permission is wrong, or a feature takes longer than expected. I have to trace the cause and make a decision.
That practice helps in my day job too. I can ask more specific questions about dependencies, recognize implementation risks earlier, and better understand the effort behind a delivery plan.
What you’ll find here
I’ll write about what I built, the choices I made, and what still needs work. Some projects draw on my healthcare experience; others are simply things I wanted to learn.
The aim is to finish small projects and understand their limits before taking on more scope. Browse the projects and notes to see how that is going.