Sounds good!

I've only been a software developer for about 5 years or so. I studied Aerospace Engineering in college and took a single intro to programming course. I don't quite remember what the topic of my 1st programming assignment was, all I remember was that I had to figure out how to compile my program and that even though I got it to work, I got a bad score because the teacher graded the assignment based on how efficient the solution was. Anyway, from then, I kind of hated programming, it wasn't until a year or two later that I started to write a lot of Matlab scripts for my assignments and gained an appreciation for programming. After finishing college, I didn't program anything for many years until 2021 I think. That's around the time when everyone was hiring software developers. I was at the point at my current job that I was feeling a bit depressed since I felt I wasn't being challenged at my job. So I started watching programming videos on JavaScript. I got so hooked that I decided to take the risky feat of quitting my job and joined a programming bootcamp. I think I got lucky and I got hired on as a frontend developer at a local company. After a year of that, I started working on more backend stuff and now I'm the team's data engineer. Last year, I went to Snowflake Summit and that's when I really started to get hooked on AI and all of the potential that it unlocks. I've been working on developing an AI agent with Snowflake but I'm interested in learning more about how all of these AI concepts work "under the hood" and getting a better understanding from a first principles perspective. The AI/ML space is moving so fast I'm having a hard time to keep track and distill what is actually important to understand vs what is just hype. I'm hoping to learn and grow with this community!