Hi everyone! I'm Developer Dominex, a self-taught full-stack developer from Myanmar, born in 2006. This is not your average developer journey. I didn’t start at a coding bootcamp, and I’ve never been to a hackathon. My first “IDE” was my phone. My classroom? Stack Overflow and GitHub. My internet? Intermittent and censored. But here’s what I did have: A desire to communicate freely. A reason to build meaningful tools. And enough curiosity to keep learning even when my country went dark. In this post, I want to share my story and the open-source-inspired ecosystem I’m building — an ecosystem made for people who need privacy, independence, and resilience in the apps they use.

Hi everyone! I'm Developer Dominex, a self-taught full-stack developer from Myanmar, born in 2006.
This is not your average developer journey. I didn’t start at a coding bootcamp, and I’ve never been to a hackathon. My first “IDE” was my phone. My classroom? Stack Overflow and GitHub. My internet? Intermittent and censored.
But here’s what I did have:
- A desire to communicate freely.
- A reason to build meaningful tools.
- And enough curiosity to keep learning even when my country went dark.
In this post, I want to share my story and the open-source-inspired ecosystem I’m building — an ecosystem made for people who need privacy, independence, and resilience in the apps they use.