So I don't work in a scientific field, and I'm not a "programmer" or "software engineer". I am a business analyst. I am a business analyst who CAN code. My co

So I don't work in a scientific field, and I'm not a "programmer" or "software engineer". I am a business analyst. I am a business analyst who CAN code. My code isn't always pretty, and I recycle a crap ton of boilerplate and hack the hell out of django apps. And I read the heck out of HN and have spent 5 years slowly refining my design chops. But most importantly, I know top-to-bottom the ins and outs of my business. So when our call center shopped around for a software solution to provide a call center full of agents realtime access to their stats, we were given a 3 month time frame and quoted $100k+ for a solution. So I wrote and deployed a web based results dashboard of realtime stats over two weekends. And we were just quoted a price on a quality management tool for $225k. Guess what's next for me? I've been an agent on the phones. I've sold in a retail environment. I've been the corporate trainer dealing with the LMS. Domain knowledge plus tech chops has proven a powerful combination for me.