the full story
BSc Computer Science · Wilfrid Laurier University · Toronto, ON
developer · marketer · musician, still early at all threeI'm Mobina, based in Newmarket, Ontario. I finished my Computer Science degree at Wilfrid Laurier in 2024, and I'm early in my career and I know it, which is exactly why I keep saying yes to things: freelance builds, marketing for other people's events, my own songs on SoundCloud.
None of it started as a plan. I picked up design because I liked how things looked, picked up marketing because a club needed someone to post consistently, and picked up software because I wanted to fix the annoying parts of both. The music came last, mostly because I finally had something to say.
Right now I'm chasing reps: more code shipped, more posts that land, more songs finished instead of left in drafts. Tedious stuff gets automated instead of repeated by hand.
an interview with myself
So, what do you actually do?
Honestly, three overlapping jobs that don't share one title yet. A given day might start with debugging a script before anyone else is awake, move into writing captions for a hackathon nobody's heard of yet, and end with re-recording the same vocal line for the fourth time because it's still not right. None of it is a hobby, exactly, and none of it is 'the real job' either. I'm early enough that everything still counts as reps, so I keep saying yes.
How did you get here?
I started in Computer Science because I liked solving puzzles. Then a club needed someone to run their socials, so I learned marketing by doing it live. Then I started writing songs because I had feelings and a laptop. None of it required permission, just showing up.
What does your process look like?
Start with what can't go wrong, then work backwards. For a hackathon's social feed, that meant knowing which post would embarrass the organizers if it flopped. For a script, it means knowing which SKU, priced wrong, gets someone a very annoyed email. Everything else is details.
What are you looking for right now?
Honestly, a shot. A junior or new-grad software role, freelance work, a marketing gig for a team that actually posts more than once a month. I want to keep building things people use, in public, where I can point at them later.
What's something people get wrong about you?
That mixing code, marketing, and music means I haven't picked a lane yet. Maybe. But every reel I've edited made me a better UI designer, and every bug I've debugged made my song lyrics tighter, weirdly. I'd rather collect real reps in three things than fake expertise in one.
What keeps the desk warm?
lessons so far
If I need a tutorial to explain my own app, I'm not done yet.
Learned this after watching a friend get stuck on my sign-up flow for ten minutes.
A post nobody saves didn't work, however much I liked making it.
Vanity metrics are comforting and mostly useless.
A song only counts once it's finished and out, not sitting in a folder.
I currently have more finished bugs than finished songs. Working on that ratio.
off the clock
that's the long version.
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