I am a 40 yr old polyglot developer(C#, JS, Python, C++, some Ruby) with a penchant for never saying can't. It may be ugly, but I will find a way. I have been using C# since 2001 with total experience sitting somewhere around 9 years, JS for about 9 years, and Python for about 4 years. I have 2 kids and the Spazmanian Devil™.

I am somewhat neophytic in the programming world. I have only been doing development professionally for the last 6 years. Wait What did I do before that I hear you ask, waiting with bated breath (ok maybe not, but I am going to tell you anyway.) Since I was a tot, I wanted to be a Veterinarian. Companion animals mostly. I fought through ADHD-fueled apathy about school in general and then fought through ADHD-feuled apathy about college until I found myself not getting into Vet School (It's really competitive, a doctor of mine joked that the A students at MU went to Vet School, the B & C students became doctors). What was I going to do now? I have spent the last 6 years driving toward this singular goal, and now it is all but unattainable.... Well, my father was a Mechanical Engineer designing those huge dump trucks you see on mining sites, and taught me how to build computers at 8 (To all you Gen-Z, that was a lot more impressive in the 80's & early 90's than it is now). I levied that into a job supporting HP notebooks, which I leveraged my Excel Skillz™ to get on the fledgling reporting team. This I leveraged to get a job at Expedia supporting Hotel Operations (bsically NOC for their Large and Medium Hotel partners). It was here that I got my first taste of the code in a production environment. I was hooked. I have been absorbing it ever since like a sponge.