2025-02-04, 12:10–12:15, D.Aud (Main)
How did I end up here?..
I don't know really, but we can look back at what happened together, the chances I got, and how I navigated them.
It feels like yesterday when I was still tinkering with hardware, designing my own PCBs, writing firmware, blowing up resistors...
And then, all of a sudden, I started writing web applications...
Then I discovered DevOps, and infrastructure...
And now, I'm working on cool stuff I couldn't have imagined I'd be doing 2 years ago.
My professional career started in 2019, starting my embedded hardware and software consulting company, creatively named “BRYAN HONOF GCV”.
It doesn't feel like it's been that long, but it has been almost 5 years since then, and a lot has changed.
I'd like to take you on the journey of a young and starting professional.
Looking at the good, the bad, and the ugly.
But most importantly, inspire you to follow your ideas, and not lose yourself in the process.
Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.
Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.
Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency to just keep on talking once he gets going.