I got started programming back in 1995. After a few months of crafting HTML pages using MS Word, and learning to write macros to help automate it, I wanted some

I got started programming back in 1995. After a few months of crafting HTML pages using MS Word, and learning to write macros to help automate it, I wanted something more interesting. My first foray into true programming was writing perl CGI programs for email forms and it took off from there. 18 years later, I am a full stack developer specialising in Perl. My first truly "big" project was writing the backend for the original thinkstock.com. I had never done anything on that scale before, but I jumped in with both feel and did a decent job (or so the guys who took over after me said).