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Let’s see. High School, worked as a photo assistant and graphic designer during summers. University, worked as a graphic designer. Did some work at a start up doing PHP. Became an insurance agent. Became a financial adviser. Worked construction. Became a high school math teacher. Started programming PHP for a start up. Same company still, but I moved to backend server stuff in Perl and Python. Then Go. I have been here nearly a decade and am now a principal engineer. Open to answer any questions. Hard row given that I started by having a kid at 15 and growing up poor. Still with the same woman over 20 years later.



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