I went from taking my toys apart to programming at age 10 and haven't looked back (mostly). A few years ago I took a hiatus to complete a postbac premed program and get into medical school. At the time I was searching for more fulfilling work and throughout the process I realized engineering was my passion. After turning down medical school, I returned to technology with renewed vigor. Since my return I have been someone who spends most of their time staring at code (some of it very, very old) at Columbia University, a Principal Software Engineer for Retail at Warby Parker, a CTO at Apploi, a Software Engineer at Curalate, Technical Lead at GrubHub, a Senior Software Engineer at Apple, Spotify, and now back to Apple. I love all aspects of software development but am at my best when I am hands-on.