I work for a firm that builds databases primarily for health and human service organizations. We usually work on the Salesforce platform (because of the aforementioned donated licenses), and develop client and program tracking systems that are closely aligned with the organization's business practices. We also do some work helping them implement donor and/or volunteer management systems. My portfolio is primarily supportive housing organizations, so I help develop outcomes tracking, client enrollment and withdrawal tracking, and case management.
I got here by working in non-profits for many years as an operations person, learning database technology, and then finding a firm that combined those two!
Could you explain what type of tasks you do? How does one get a job like yours?