I got my BS in CompSci in 1984 and have been working as a software engineer ever since:

• 1984-2009: IBM: developer and tester on Unix System Services on z/OS, Tivoli (TBSM), etc
• 2010-2012: Student at Wake Tech Community College for web technologies
• 2012-2016: QA for Aster database product at Teradata
• 2016-2017: Contractor at IBM on Blockchain team
• 2018-present: Contractor at Cisco on various teams

My favorite languages are Python and Unix shell.