Just over 20 years now and loving every bit of it! I started with hobby electronics and failed miserably at it, I was just not cut out for hardware, after having failed more than a few times on a simple amplifier circuit, software felt like heaven as it was more lenient towards my trials and definitely cost effective!

Blessed enough to have Indian parents who bought me a computer at unproportional cost to my dad's middle class government salary, discovering the joy of creation, the magic of computer graphics, the wonders of 3D modeling and gaming (Michael Abrash's book was my first inspiration, I still have all my books from back then), pulling night outs at college computer lab, wide eyed at Internet and the black IRC chat window, ending up in enterprise software as a professional, fortunate enough to be enlightened on the intricacies of enterprise software by the veterans of BaaN software (it runs Boeing), lucky enough to build 3 enterprise software platforms from scratch and now the fourth one is by running my enterprise mobility PaaS company from India with a team of wonderful young new generation developers who beat me squarely at my old game!

Thank you for evoking all the nostalgia :-)