[loudouncodes]

I spent 11 years working as a contractor for the U.S. State Department. During this time I:

- In 1996 built and deployed a system to keep track of the removal of landmines in Bosnia. In 2015 I met someone who knew my work as a child in Sarajevo, producing the maps they’d give out to schoolchildren.

- I managed a project with over 30 team members to build a system to help former Soviet Union countries manage their import/export control policies.

- I helped create a system for generating some annual reports for Poland that was a requirememnt for them to join NATO.

[the_only_law]

Never worked for the federal government but my first “real” full time dev job was at a small state government agency and the work I did there had very visible positive effects for people interacting with the agency. Pay was really low though.