Diary of a code apprentice
Hi, I'm
Laura Montironi 👋
Former accountant, mum, and a developer under construction. This is where I document my career change, what I learn, and the mental chaos of starting over.
Laura Montironi
Former chartered accountant, mum, and a developer under construction.
Two weeks into my new job, and it feels like I am learning faster than ever.
chapters written between Jul 2025 and Jun 2026
“This is not the blog of someone who already made it. It is the blog of someone walking the path, step by step.”
— About me
🇦🇷 Córdoba → 🇪🇸 Barcelona
- 📊 Chartered Accountant · UNC
- 🎓 MBA · EAE Business School
- 💻 Bootcamp · UpgradeHub
- 🥊 Backend developer at a fintech
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Two weeks into my new job and the feeling of learning faster than ever.
🥊 Box well. The knockout comes on its own
How I went from finishing a bootcamp to working in backend at a fintech.
🚀 Building my first SaaS with FastAPI and PostgreSQL: the real errors that almost broke my backend
💡 What I learned building a course platform while I am still learning web development.
🚧 In the meantime
Building two projects at once: working in a team and building a SaaS from scratch.
🔍 Job hunting is a job too (and nobody prepares you for it)
And I am learning it the hard way.
🎓 The end of the bootcamp, the beginning of my real tech path
When finishing your studies is, in fact, the real beginning
🚀 The day I stopped 'practising' and started really coding
Final project at the UpgradeHub bootcamp: real architecture, real deployment, real mistakes (yes, I deleted the repo) and a complete API running in production.
🌍⚡ Connecting Angular to the real world and surviving
From technical chaos to the mental click: how I went from understanding Angular in theory to making it talk to real APIs, handle authentication errors, and feel like everything finally fits.
Learning to code from zero, without giving up
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