Built, Not Taught
My journey into frontend engineering didn’t follow a conventional path. It was shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and learning things the hard way.
I’m Trishnangshu Goswami, a frontend engineer from Kolkata, West Bengal.
Before I ever wrote code, I was deeply drawn to the arts — sketching, painting, and anything that allowed creative expression. Traditional schooling never clicked with me, but everything changed when a computer entered my life in 5th standard.
What started as curiosity quickly became obsession — cloning web pages, experimenting with HTML, and trying to understand why things worked the way they did.
That curiosity led me into unexpected places — hacking tools, networking basics, Linux, and the command line. While exploring Metasploit, I came across exploit code written in C, which pushed me to learn programming seriously.
In 7th grade, I borrowed Let Us C from a teacher who challenged me by saying I wouldn’t understand it because I was bad at math. That challenge became fuel. I spent weeks learning C fundamentals, and concepts like pointers clicked naturally — shaping how I reason about systems even today.
“What hooked me wasn’t hacking itself — it was the freedom to build, break, and understand things on my own terms.”
After 10th grade, I stepped away from traditional schooling and joined a diploma engineering course. There, I picked up JavaScript and Angular, built real projects, freelanced, and worked on a friend’s startup.
By my second year, I landed my first full-time role and dropped the course entirely. Since then, I’ve been working as a full-time developer for about five years — entirely self-taught, learning through production systems, mistakes, and real-world constraints.
Today
Most recently I was a Frontend Engineer at Delta Exchange, where I worked on a real-time trading platform serving hundreds of thousands of active traders. Currently, I'm building DilSayCare — an AI-assisted mental health platform — from the ground up.
While frontend is my core specialization, I actively build across the stack — backend systems with Node.js and PostgreSQL, mobile apps with React Native and Expo, and infrastructure with Docker and observability tooling.
Mindset
The hardest part of my journey wasn’t learning to code — it was navigating expectations.
With a 53% score in 10th grade and no formal degree, I faced a lot of skepticism. But that friction taught me to trust myself, focus on long-term growth, and keep building even when the path looked unconventional.
This site is a collection of my work, thinking, and notes from building and debugging real-world systems.