My journey: Java -> unit testing -> design patterns -> domain driven design
Since 2004: PHP, perl, JavaScript, SQL, Java, python, bash (ugh), C as necessary. Git! Most of that time spent creating fullstack (LAMP) e-commerce web sites.
Linux user since 2002. Preseed + ansible = automate all the things!
B.S. Physics, Univ. of California at Davis
Latest "kick": recursive decent parsers