I'm a late entry to software engineering. Originally a sysadmin (*nix and windows) and computer tech, my only experience with programming was vbscript, python, ruby, perl and php for a variety of simple tasks.
Being a sysadmin left me with the opportunity to administer a lot of enterprise software that was expensive, hard to maintain, rarely did what the customer or I wanted and involved awful support. Convinced that software did not have to be that bad I spent the next several years attempting to be a software developer that would not leave my customers with an expensive, hard to maintain product. This search lead me to agile development practices and great sites like Los Techies.
I'm currently a software developer for Rackspace Hosting in San Antonio, TX .
I try to make all of non-work code available on github.com