[atraub]

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atraub
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atraub

I started college as a psychology major and only took a computer science course for giggles. By the end of my first semester of college I knew I had found my calling.

In 2006, a buddy of mine told me that there was a game he wanted to mod. He approached me because he knew I had some talent for Java. I had to scratch my head when he showed me a sample script though. The language looked weird... there was no semicolon at the end of each line and the for loops looked like nothing I had ever seen. Apparently, people were writing scripts for this 3D space dogfighting game in a humble language I had never heard of, Python. After a little reading, I fell in love with the language.

One day, my professor and mentor found me reading a book on Python in one of the school's computer labs. We started talking and I showed him some basic programs I had been working on. He told me that he was changing the entry Computer Science class from Java to Python. Given that I was the only student in the school who knew the language, he offered me a job as a teaching assistant. I did that for two years and loved every moment of it. I have a passion for teaching.

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Lemur

I'm Brandon. I'm 24, working as a Systems Software Engineer in San Francisco at Sony on the Playstation Team.

I switch between using Ruby, Javascript, Python, and Scala at work. Primarily I'm a Rails / Tools developer, but I've begun to experiment with Big Data solutions using Spark with Scala and Python.

While Ruby is my first love, I find that Python and Scala both are far more suited currently to the Data Science and Big Data problem sets in the world today.

This post has been edited by macosxnerd101: 07 June 2015 - 08:37 AM
Reason for edit:: added Lemur as a Forum Leader

[JackOfAllTrades]

Congrats, atraub, and welcome aboard!

[atraub]

Thank you sir! Glad to be here

This post has been edited by atraub: 25 September 2015 - 07:22 AM

[Eric115]

Congrats on getting forum leader!

[Dogstopper]

Congratulations! Glad to have you on the team!

[blutrane]

Congrats to you sir!

[atraub]

Thanks everybody! Ya know, if there's anything more personal anyone wants to ask me about, feel free to do it here. Seems like the right place to do it.

[Seta00]

That's a nice story!
I started by myself on most if not all of the languages I have experience with, so that's very a different approach to programming for me!

[atraub]

I changed my introduction to match some recent developments I no longer work in telecommunications and I'm a Senior Python Engineer now! Woohooo!!!

This post has been edited by atraub: 25 September 2015 - 07:23 AM

[Simown]

Congratulations atraub! That's amazing.

[Brewer]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 24 is pretty young to be a Senior Engineer isn't in? How did you land the job?

[atraub]

24 is VERY young to be a senior anything. However, I've been studying and working with Python for 4 years... which is a lot longer than most of the people in my area. A headhunter saw my linkedin profile, looked at my blog, checked out my contributions on DIC and was very impressed.

One thing to be aware of is that a Senior position implies the responsibility of training your peers. My background in teaching really bolstered my odds of getting the job. During the interview, I did my best to show them that I'm the kind of guy who gets the job done. I will work late into the night and on weekends if that's what it takes to get the results I want.

I think they respected my resolve.

[JacksonD]

thats really really good, sounds like a good time.

This post has been edited by atraub: 25 July 2012 - 02:02 PM
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[atraub]

Congratulations on becoming a forum leader Simown!!

This post has been edited by atraub: 03 November 2011 - 10:22 AM

[Simown]

Thanks atraub! I look forward to working and collaborating with you very soon

It was certainly a bit of a shock when I was asked.

This post has been edited by Simown: 03 November 2011 - 12:44 PM