Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for the comment, Alex. Mark Waldrep has a wealth of experience with high resolution audio and is always interesting, sometimes provocative, with his ideas.
Thanks for your kind comments, Ronald Ellis. My Audiophile Linux install hasn't "gone into production" in my house yet, but it may at some point; right now I rely on a couple of small headless and fanless servers using MPD and I run the client elsewhere. Still, I really like what I see in Audiophile Linux, and I hope its developer manages to remain engaged with the project.