And away we go!

I have never been much of a writer. In fact I have never been very good at writing at all, but at this time in my life I find that I have a lot to say. Let me back up for a second. By trade I am a software engineer. I have spent most of my career working at large companies as a software engineer working with java. I followed a typical path for software engineers, which goes something like this:

1. Find job out of college as a junior engineer
2. Write lots of code while senior engineers tell you that your solutions suck
3. Become senior engineer so that you can tell junior engineers that their solutions suck
4. Become a consultant so you can make money off of other people’s solutions that suck

Blah. That became old really quick. There are several problems with the above that I don’t care to go into right now. So in light of that I decided that this would be the year that I did something about it. I was convinced that there was a better way to make a living being passionate about software. So I joined a startup so that I could have control over the software creation process. This has been the most thrilling and tiring time of my life. The good news is that we have lots of work to do, the bad news there is less people to do the work.  I learned as my time as a consultant that I really like clients, which is a different mindset than is prevalent at most software companies. I believe there is a lot of good that comes from having software engineers directly interfacing with clients.

What I hope to share on this blog are the current technologies that I am interested as well as my thoughts on development process. In addition to these topics I hope to write about my journey into creating a better environment for software professionals.

I have often said to myself and others “If I were running things I would do it differently!”. It is time for me to prove it!  I am sure that I will make mistakes along the way, but in the end I hope to look back at this journey with a very successful team of software professionals.

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