I've been developing software since my parents got an Acorn Electron in the mid 1980s, when I was about 8 years old. Typing in games from magazines and books inspired me to learn to what they meant and start writing my own programs. From then on I was hooked and there's been no looking back...
My first techie job was at Sun Microsystems where I was involved in the administration of a large data centre used to replicate their enterprise customers' problems. I was able to apply my development skills to process automation and developing tools to improve the experience of the engineers using the facility. I was involved with cloud hosting/provisioning technology before it was widely used.