Early programming journey starting with Pascal in school and C# self-study in 2005, transition from C# to Java through local programming courses in 2007, first experiences with Java 6 and EJB2/EJB3, working with Delphi for lawyers' desktop software before finding Java opportunities, first Java project for Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks website, career progression through entertainment and banking sectors including work with Barclays Capital and UBS, transition to CI/CD engineering in 2012 with heavy Jenkins usage and source code patching, challenges of implementing trunk-based development practices, automated QA engineering experiences with selenium testing, problems with separate QA and development teams affecting code testability, self-study of biology and chemistry leading to scientific software development, founding elsci company focused on high-performance enterprise software for chemists and biotech companies, disconnect between software developers and scientists' needs in scientific software, advantages of quarkus framework for serverless deployments on AWS, Quarkus build-time deployment optimization versus traditional application servers, comparison with Spring Boot auto-configuration complexity, migration experiences from Java EE to Quarkus maintaining standards compliance, virtual threads support in modern Quarkus, preference for Java 7 simplicity over modern Java streams, importance of end-to-end testing over unit testing pyramid, challenges of running a software company versus being an independent consultant, Helsinki Java User Group presentation on operating system thread mechanics

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