Hello IH: I'm finally introducing myself.

Hello, IH!

I've been lurking for a while now, and I'm finally making time to update my profile and write a formal introduction.

So hi. I'm Jared! :)

I'm hoping to benefit from all the inspiration and wisdom floating around here. And if I can help with anything (my domain is primarily in the .NET/.NET Core world), please feel free to message me. Though I don't think .NET is very popular around here.

I'll write out a pretty detailed bio below for anyone who's interested. I have some other things I'd like to share and ask, but I'll put those in a separate post.

Cheers!

      Fold and tear on line
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About Me (Raw and Uncut! Actually, no, it's pretty tame.)

I'm a .NET developer in the government sector who sometimes dreams about being self-employed. My career started in IT operations and support, and I spent 7 years working my way up the ladder to a systems analyst. I did a lot of PowerShell scripting, which led to C# and ad-hoc app development. I fell in love with programming at that point and spent the next year growing my skills so I could officially transition into the developer world.

Then I found out that most development work is boring.

But I continued on nonetheless, and I got better at being a developer. I got better quickly. And I found out most of my seniors were actually rather crappy developers.

So then I made it my goal to get out of the government and into the private sector, where I could learn from real developers who weren't retiring on the job. That proved to be more difficult than I thought it would be. I eventually gave up and resigned myself to the cube farm, where developers go to stagnate and become irrelevant.

Then I got an offer out of the blue. The CTO of a company had been going through my GitHub repo for a remote desktop app I had made (https://github.com/jay-rad/instatech_server), and he wanted me to come work on their remote management SaaS product. Sweet! Dream job come true!

But the other shoe dropped. The code was more or less in shambles, falling apart faster than it could be put back together. There was no desire to fix it. The response from the CEO was, "How do we hide the errors from the customers?" Then I found out what some VC-funded startups were all about. Relentless pursuit of an exit, even at the cost of their customers' security.

I felt too uneasy staying there, so I went back to the cube farm.

I'm still casually browsing for a new job while hoping that I'll some day see some revenue from DoXM.

Other stuff about me: I have a wife and kids. They're pretty cool. ;) I'm vegetarian (because it tastes better). I have an electric car that's not a Tesla, and I love it. I'd probably love it more if it were a Tesla, though. I'm a human gymnasium for my daughter and a PC-gaming buddy for my son.

So that's me! Thanks for reading!