Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Cody Eddings always liked computers. His fascination grew to the point that he hung out at at an unlikely place just to pick the brains of the people who worked there.

“I went to Best Buy all the time and asked them questions,” he told Technical.ly. “I realized I really liked doing that.”

Eddings’ high school guidance counselor recommended he apply to Lehigh University’s computer engineering program. After graduating from Lehigh in 2015, he stayed in the Lehigh Valley for two years to start his engineering career as a systems engineer at Grantek, where he worked on SCADA, a data system for solar or wind farms.

Things were going well — until Eddings was laid off. He knew that in his next role, he wanted to do something that touched everyday people. To him, that looked like building Android apps. He’d taught himself Android app development in his own time as the creator of musical app GuitarSim. He had experience and just needed an opportunity to display his skills. That came in December 2017 when he started a new job as an Android developer at ROAR For Good, the Philly-based wearable safety device startup founded by Yasmine Mustafa.

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