I've been writing code since the days when QBasic shipped with Windows 3.0, but it wasn't until years later that I learned that programming is both creative expression and analytical exercise, and that I could get paid to do it. Since then, I've loved making computers do useful things for people, whether they be other programmers, or biologists, or my mom. My specific experience is working on building platforms that bring joy to other developers, but I’ve traversed up and down the stack from web and mobile all the way to backend data systems. Computers and developers make me happy.  Today, you can find me at Google working on building the world's largest open corpus of Podcasts.