[danpetrov]

I have been studying programming since my early childhood years, because apparently I had decent logic skills and parents in the city would sign up kids for this private math and programming evening school.

Later though I originally picked to pursue an aerospace engineering degree and was working as a live dealer at a live casino company while studying, but the same company also had a large engineering department, and it was very tempting. So I went back to my roots, started out as a manual tester to get the foot in the door, and later slowly transitioned to automation QA and then to a backend developer. Now I switched universities and am doing a Bachelor's in Computer Science, mostly for fun and to fill in any knowledge gaps.

Really the new company didn't care about a degree, and I honestly learned way more from independent study and my work than I did at university so far. Blogs, conference talks and books are really what helped me a ton. While the new job is quite difficult, my colleagues are great, and we take very relaxing breaks and do lots of activities outside of work. Knowing that my work impacts millions of people around the world is quite inspiring.