I started my career in the software engineering field with backend engineering powered by PHP. Yii Framework to be specific nearly a decade ago. I moved to Python in early 2018 and since then I'm using both PHP and Python to complete my backend projects. I start off by understanding the problem that I need to solve. I jot down my notes on what will be the best way to develop the big brains of the project and with being minimal on the tech stack I try to achieve completion.