User:Blvckengineer

Early Life
Kelso Bryan Griffin also known as Blvckengineer raised in Denver, Colorado, shortly before moving to the Detroit, Michigan area. His family roots back in the Texas areas before splitting between LA and Denver. In 2011, Blvckengineer was diagnosed with Non-Hodgekin's Lymphoma Cancer, which caused him to take a year away from school while going through chemo and radiation. In 2012, he attended Grand Valley State University in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan where he got his degree within computer science. During his schooling he'd met with employers such as Google, Amazon, Playstation and Big Tech automotive companies. He has worked on many self starter projects as well as influenced many different corporations in direction, one project he'd built on his own in particular is remote play connectivity for the Playstation 4 for mobile phones prior to being an official Sony Mobile Application.

When asked why he got into coding, Kelso states that technology saved his life at a very young age beginning with modding his playstation 2 to save video games on a hard drive, "Yeah, it's crazy to see where technology is nowadays. I'm looking at these new consoles and I'm a little in shock just because the new features don't wow me as they do everything else. I break down every piece of hardware I own. I was in middle school breaking down my PS2 piece by piece and uploaded a software to save games. I used to rent games at the local blockbuster just to save the game on my hard drive I had and bring it right back. I didn't even need the disc after. Mind you, this was the PS2 not the 3. I'm still ahead of the curve."

When asked how his any hardships have affected his life, "Honestly, I'm the type to learn lessons not only through my experience, but the experience of my loved ones. I've always wanted to stay out of the bs early on. You know, you got friends going down the wrong path, I'm the type to be like intelligence is the new wave and that's all I want to push. They say ignorance is bliss and believe me intelligence pushed in the wrong direction can be a negative. I try to focus my intelligence on the positive just because of where I'm from so much negativity has been planted that I literally felt like I had to rewire my brain and plant new seeds. Certain people get intimidated from intelligence and those are the type of people I'm trying to keep from around my energy. Kids really look up to me and honestly once I began noticing them trying to be more like me and that's when I understood that I really needed to stay motivational for them. I want to highlight that you can look like me and still be an engineer!"