Nice to meet you—I'm Kevin Gagante, a manufacturing-turned-software engineer currently sharpening my backend skills through Year Up United's intensive program (2023-2024), where I'm building robust Java applications and dissecting Spring Boot architectures. My journey from medical assembly to code has been fueled by a UC Berkeley Coding Bootcamp foundation, a hunger for complex problem-solving, and the realization that debugging production issues is oddly similar to troubleshooting surgical equipment—except the stakes are (usually) lower. When I'm not untangling dependency injection or optimizing APIs, I'm exploring how to weave AI principles into backend systems. Let's connect and geek out over clean code, clever solutions, and the occasional null pointer exception war story.
