definitely. Um, so I'll go like a really high level at first, but, uh, yeah, I grew up. My mom was in the Army, and my dad was really the picture of the grew up. So we moved around a lot. Um, and then for high school, I moved to Maryland, which is where, like, I finally got to settle down. I had gone to a different school every year up to that point, um, and I have been Ah, pretty nerdy kid. Uh, really have a lot of friends saw. Like when I moved to Maryland. I like cycle. Hamish, Pretend I'm like, uh, this cool person. I'm gonna deal this. So then I, uh, start plants. Ford started doing things, but I was lucky that I had a nice, like, educational foundation. Um, so in high school, I was an artist. He played sports. I didn't actually have, like, the best grades, but I was lucky that I had done well on tests. Uh, good test scores. Um, so I had gone out to, like, look, a couple schools. I was really interested in computer science in, uh, acting. I didn't know in computer science. Actually, I just worked Making games at the time was like computer science. Yeah. Um, so then I was like, Oh, computer science in acting. And then I figured I like Carnegie Mellon was amazing at both of those things. So I went out there, and it's actually not their flag football visit, which is not what you think about for a Carnegie Mellon. Uh, got in, um, was actually study electoral computer. I mean, yeah, electrical and computer engineering. But then I switched your computer science and acting, Uh, and then, yeah, the whole long, crazy story in there. Ah, and yeah, I started interning at Microsoft my sophomore summer, uh, which was the most amazing spirits ever on. Then I interned there the following year. I ended up having to take one extra semester. So I had one more summer, but didn't intern that summer, actually just took it toe act. I went out to do like, uh oh, uh, off Broadway in New York, and then I, uh, was a cat. And then I started work for myself on Azure Stack. So we make a Mrs version of Azure. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a crazy journey, but it's been amazing.look.

Definitely. Yeah, So I'll answer the second part first, just because it's like a little more straightforward, but sure like time getting to and from work That's really up to like where you live. I personally I work in Seattle, live on the west Coast of Seattle in, um, uh, the West and the North and Microsoft excel in the East. It takes you quite a while because I don't have a car, so I would see the bust or take, like, a ride, share something. So take me like maybe 30 to 40 minutes. I don't because since I'm not driving like, read something, we're or spend that time to just wake up, but something we live right next with some people of our an hour him, um, yeah, for hours a week and for job descriptions of responsibility, I think for lots of major companies like a Microsoft or Google or Amazon or any, like, really big coming those old there's so much work. So it's like you can kind of take on as much or as little as you want, really, in the the amount that you grow in the amount that people trust you to do varies with that, um, once. Well, I'm a very go getter type person. I wanted a lot, so I have a lot of responsibilities in that. Like I I own like, like orchestration of, like, some major pipelines. I would like talk to five or six teams, Really? And I like tooling. So I'm making, like, a tools project that I have to, like, interact with our customer support team or with the other engineer, that one things but that you can have more or less, You know, depending on your experience, yeah.right. So, um well, this is gonna be hugely team the team. But what I found normally is there is a thing your team works on, and it uses, like, the big to do in that, um And then there is something that they will want you to specialize in with that round. And then we're There's just all this other work that exists on if you want another work, Uh, right about something. Uh, this work comes team to team. How much they'll let you pursue that. I have a manager that I'm very interested in tooling, and I'm making tools that help our team. But it's not our team's job to make tools. So, um, yeah, I would say Usually, for most people in for everybody, at least to some extent, there is a thing your team does. I'm on the update and, um, way do orchestration. And my job is to be in charge of, like, these these specific pipelines and help, like, right. Some things, like code for bare metal, like Seems like that is my job description. But you always do more than your job.

uh, give like it straight for once again. Way use. Uh, it's Microsoft's. We use the s code little studio are, uh, you know, kind of the go choose. We also have We use a lot of power self. So you just used, you know, um, what's, uh, for languages? Ones get It depends on where you go. But are its Microsoft lots of C sharp in power shell is gonna be your core languages for the algorithms and, like, strangle. But here, um, this is something that I feel like is really important. Like school. It both helps you with a lot and doesn't help you with it all. Sort of, uh, were you algorithms you want in these frameworks, you anything's but on the job that the question is almost never like, um, what frame were like. It's almost never, like, answered this very clear question. Using this stream work like there is a Can you look and see if there's a framework were already using? If we're not already using one, can you think of a framework to use in this scenario or some algorithm? These in this scenario, there are coaches like, for example, using mock for testing is the thing that is very commonly used, Um, for algorithms. You know, you're gonna have very tough night search searches. You know the other with that. But you're really gonna unite a question like in college where they're like, Hey, here is a problem that clearly set up to be answered by very clearly this algorithm. Yeah, um, it's not exactly said, but like when it comes to design pattern, that's what that, I think is really good to learn, because you don't have to do it. And doing it helps so much. It's one of those that you can write code that looks really good. That doesn't follow design patterns, and it'll just kind of messi over time, um, so those were helpful.