I'm not one to make fun of someone who puts himself out there like you have. I've been there before. I think you'll find that engineers are a critical and skep

I'm not one to make fun of someone who puts himself out there like you have. I've been there before. I think you'll find that engineers are a critical and skeptical bunch. You're right that you should get in front of as many of them as you can. You need to learn as much from them as possible, even the ones who aren't working with you. Listen to them. They will help you in subtle ways that you might not notice at first. At this point your most important goal must be to gain credibility. I don't think you should learn Python or anything like that. We both agree that's probably not a great use of your time. What you do need to do is understand enough about how web-based products are built and how they work to talk competently about specifics. That's going to be hard. One way to do it is to try to build something yourself, which we've kind of ruled out. One way to do it is to read a lot. One way to do it is to find someone you know who's an engineer and watch what he/she does while asking questions. Credibility is everything. And you can't substitute it with passion. I wish you the best of luck. Keep us updated.