I've been a hobby developer since the GeoCities and Angelfire days, back when "the Internet" came on a CD, web pages were ugly, and half the text blinked or scrolled. I’ve built my own PCs, ran Ubuntu as my main OS for ~2 years just for fun, flashed custom firmware to my router and smart light switches, wired my whole house up with Cat6, and have automated just about anything I can think of with EventGhost (Windows), Tasker (Android), and Home Assistant (Smart Hub).Despite always being interested in technology, I earned a BA and MBA in Marketing and spent my first six years of employment as a marketing manager. After ramping up my hobby development projects and self-study, I landed my first software gig as a Support Engineer for Microsoft, which involved more debugging of others' code than anybody should be subjected to. Nonetheless, it was a role that I really thrived in; I love being around code.Call me a masochist, but I really, truly enjoy banging my head against a wall trying to solve a problem just to get that tiny little rush of endorphins once I figure it out and make things work.Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, PythonTools: Node.js, Angular, React, Azure, CosmosDB, MongoDB
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