[davewasthere]

In my own time, I built a data-logger PoC that would help us fault-find some issues we were having with a generator (in an aircraft). After the PoC, I did it as an official project (designed the hardware, wrote the embedded software, and wrote some interface software that ran on a PC in c++).

That (and a few other factors) got me a role at Headquarters, on a networking team. But I kept writing tools in software and ended up getting snaffled for a web-development team. And have been doing web-applications ever since.