I've been programming since about 8 years old. I came from humble beginnings, was writing my first programs using a long-forgotten language called G-BASIC, later QuickBasic, and then Delphi with all its delights of visual programming. Year after year, technologies were changing (there was a time when I was writing on C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, sometimes PHP and more and more on Java), and that's not all. Today I'm actively learning and using a lot of Big Data tools in my work and even contributing to some of them.