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One Year and a Certificate That Feels Earned

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Adrian Enßlin
Adrian Enßlin
Full-Stack & DevSecOps Engineer

October 2024. One year after my first HTML tag, I held my frontend certificate in my hands.

It sounds simple. But anyone who has pushed through a bootcamp knows: it's anything but.

Frontend Certificate

In that year I built projects I couldn't have imagined at the start. Join — a Kanban task manager, developed in a team, working with Git for the first time, taking responsibility for parts of the code that others would touch. JetFire — a browser game, fully object-oriented, where I finally understood what OOP really means — not when it's explained, but when you actually need it. DABubble — my final project. Angular. Firebase. Real-time chat. A team of three. The most complex frontend I had ever built.

Every one of these projects taught me something no tutorial covers.

My Projects from the Frontend Course​

Frontend Projects​

But honestly, I could barely celebrate.

Not because the certificate meant nothing. But because I immediately knew: I want to keep going right away. The backend is waiting. And even more than that — I wanted to understand how to properly publish what you build. Cleanly. Securely. Professionally.

But first: backend.

The next course started without a break.