I got my bachelor's degree in computer engineering which focused a little less on software and databases over fitting in some circuit design, computer architecture, and robotics. This required a lot of prerequisite physics classes, so I snuck in a minor in applied physics. I learned C++ as my first language, along with some Verilog for the FPGA design courses.

I started out doing hardware troubleshooting that went beyond what our customer service team could solve. Many times this involved careful and tedious steps to reproduce the issue in order to have hard evidence for our manufacturers that there was indeed a problem to that needed fixing. In order to improve many of our processes I picked up Python for auditing live systems and automation purposes.

Now working in DevOps and creating custom webapps such as test benchmark visualization and version control tools