I have a very similar story as a background. To add to what you said: while maintaining and debugging software installs, I learned a lot about how and when thin

I have a very similar story as a background. To add to what you said: while maintaining and debugging software installs, I learned a lot about how and when things break. Especially, how important it is to keep things simple. This turned out to be invaluable when I began working as a software developer after graduating.