Alex Chen

My Story

I spent four years as a marketing coordinator, writing briefs and managing campaigns — but I kept finding myself in meetings asking "wait, why can't we just change the website?" Eventually I decided to stop asking and start learning.

Web development appealed to me because it sits at the intersection of logic and creativity. I like that there's always a right answer when something is broken, but there are a thousand ways to make something beautiful. Coming from marketing, I already think in terms of audience and purpose — now I'm learning to express that through code.

This portfolio documents my first unit of study. It's not perfect — but it's genuinely mine, built one checkpoint at a time, with real stumbling blocks and real fixes along the way.