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preface

Nearly 20 years ago, I got my start in professional software engineering writing a mashup of Matlab, C++, and VB.net code to control and analyze data from mass spectrometers and other laboratory devices. The thrill of seeing a line of code trigger a machine to move how I wanted always stuck with me, and ever since then, I knew software engineering was the career for me. Over the years, I gradually moved toward API development and distributed systems, mainly focusing on Java and Scala, learning a lot of Python along the way.

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