working almost 30 years. no stem degree or high school certificate. bought first computer with money earned at summer at carpentry shop.

started working in dial up isp. going to the clients home to install trumpet winsock and netscape navigator. from there moved to do some web development (php/fi, ajax).delphi. perl. over time gravitated into network/security software development and telecoms.

now oversee a few hundreds of developers that work on rather big system deployed in multiple locations arounds world.