Lucas McClean

Hey, I'm Lucas! I'm currently studying Computer Science at UCF.

My interest in programming began in middle school, but for a long time I thought that it was beyond me. Up until my junior year of high school, I was set on pursuing a career in aeropace. That year, though, I had an opportunity to work on a video game with some friends. That experience showed me that it wasn't beyond me; I could pursue software as a career.

That summer and the following year of high school, I dove into all kinds of development. I started with video games but quickly shifted to web development. I spent a lot of time learning the fundamentals of JS, CSS, and HTML, but eventually became interested in learning backend. From there, I picked up Go and discovered that I really enjoyed working on the logic of these applications.

It was around the time that I was learning Go that I really realized that you can learn just about anything in software by just diving in and enjoying the process. From that point onward I've tried to learn something new daily.

Expertise:

• Go
  • Templ
• Git
• Godot
  • GDScript
• Linux
  • Gentoo
  • Fedora
• Python
• HTML/CSS
• TypeScript/JavaScript

Learning:

• Rust
• Docker
• React/Next.js