BEAU BRUEGGEMANN

I was introduced to programming at the age of five or six, when my dad showed me C64 BASIC. Throughout my childhood, I learned as much programming as I could (I was determined to make games). Eventually, I studied computer science at college (but finished with a music degree), and I have continued my independent computer/math/music studies ever since-I like good books... In addition to continuous personal programming projects, I have been programming professionally since 2010. I am self-directed, can teach myself new (and old) things, and am comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases (or architecting new ones!). As a quick study and a well-versed generalist, I've developed a knack over the years for being able to understand the core of a problem, and develop language- or system-agnostic solutions that are durable, professional, and timely... I prefer C over many more recent languages, which tend to add accidental complexity at the language level (for an absurd example, of which I..