Natasha Ong's NextWork portfolio

Helllooooo beautiful person! Nat here from the NextWork team - reporting live. I studied Computer Science and Business at university in New Zealand, then was lucky enough to join NextWork straight after graduating. Somehow, even after completing an entire degree, I still had no idea what cloud computing, AWS, or Azure actually meant at the time 👹 Learning to build with them from scratch completely changed my understanding of how technical skills can be taught, and how much better the learning experience could be. Fast-forward three years, and I’ve learned a lot about building a startup, teaching technical skills, and how AI is rapidly changing the landscape for both. AI has made me much more ambitious about what I believe I can build. I’m not an engineer, but now I can have an idea, open Cursor or Claude Code, and get surprisingly far toward turning it into something real. It’s why we’re constantly experimenting with new tools, doing more in less time, and building things we might not have attempted a few years ago. The barrier to trying something new has never been lower. That makes it even more important to figure out which ideas and tools are truly worth our time. This portfolio is a collection of what I’m building and learning along the way: projects I’ve made, ideas I’ve experimented with, and, hopefully, a growing record of getting better at all of it. I hope you have the best time learning on NextWork and that we get to build together sometime. See you in the community 👉 community.nextwork.ai