Grew up in Arizona, lived in Germany for about a year, went to Arizona State University. Studied aerospace engineering, interned at Honeywell, where they were u

Grew up in Arizona, lived in Germany for about a year, went to Arizona State University. Studied aerospace engineering, interned at Honeywell, where they were using a VAX mainframe[1] to build software and do "revision control" in ~2006 or 2007. My job was to manually fix requirements tracking that had gotten out of sync (basically, I was editing a bunch of PDFs, except it was some document software running on the mainframe.) I got in trouble for spending a couple weeks helping another engineer replace 90% of the work I was supposed to do with a relational database. I didn't even have to build the software, they previously had it and then it broke and rather than fixing it, they were just doing it manually. The next summer, I interned at Boeing where I spent the first month reading dry paper manuals because I was waiting to get a computer, and because my boss was too lazy/busy to find real work for me to do. The next month was spent filling out paperwork that could have been replaced by a very simple web application, except that it had to be paper and it had to be a Word doc because of bizarre process requirements. They were paying a full-time engineer $70k to do the same thing I was doing as an intern. The final month was finally spent doing some real engineering work (something about dissimilar metals.) After those two experiences of how backwards and fucked up the aerospace sector is, I decided I would just keep doing web dev, which I'd been doing since I was about 15 (programming since I was about 12 or 13.) Currently in NYC working for Etsy. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX