I started coding when I was 9, went professional at 14, and never looked back. My first big project was Epoch, the original X-Windowing version of GNU Emacs. I worked at a small startup until it was, through a string of acquisitions, acquired by Cisco. I worked on security and firewall management software until leaving Cisco due to a site shutdown. I ran my own product and then consulting firm (Network Geographics) until I was hired away from myself by Yahoo! to work on Apache Traffic Server.