I started in tech as an analyst at Brightidea back in 2007 when I was 25. At that time, I was transitioning away from mathematics and education. I taught myself Ruby on Rails and was hired a year later at readMedia as their first full-time developer. We grew the company and turned it into what Merit is today.

It was a startup environment, and I didn't just develop in Ruby — I did everything: DB & server administration and deployment, cloud scaling and automation, security, and project management. My passion has always been to build great products with great technologies.