Physics guy by training - sensors, data acquisition, instrumentation. Inexorable slide into software development followed.
https://chriscoughlin.com/about-chris/
Two Neat Things I've Done:
Got a patent https://www.google.com/patents/US7080555 . Flight tested on a F-15 E1.
Won NASA funding: http://sbir.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/16/sbir/phase1/SBIR-16-1-H13.01-8360.html .