[gutt3r_punk]

I’ve been a developer for 30 years and haven’t ever grown tired of it. I attribute that to trying to have a lot of variety over the years.

My first job was doing mainframe development for a few years until Y2K was done. Starting at ground zero with Assembler then on to COBOL.

From there I moved to being a consultant doing Java and .Net. This was J2EE and .Net alpha and beyond.

From there I was the team lead at a web hosting company leading the rewrite of the VBScript, PHP and Perl sites over to .Net to modernize.

Then I moved to my current company, where I’ve been for 20 years. Started doing .Net web dev, then moved to .Net Win Form apps. Then to Silverlight, then Knockout, Backbone, Angular 1. Then to a DevOps role leading a team where I helped out with Powershell automation. From there to a team that built POCs for the Machine Learning/Data Engineering team. I was always a team of one building whatever was needed. Then onto a Senior Staff Engineer role architecting and developing a large multi-region LATAM web application.

I’ve had so much variety and played so many roles that I’ve never hated work. Anytime something came up that may interest me I would show initiative and volunteer. Never just settled for grunt work.