You could say I am an accidental technologist. I graduated college with a degree in English Literature and promptly did nothing with that. At that time (middle 90s), the gravitational pull of the Web, or should I say the economic enthusiasm in this new Internet platform, sucked every last random, myself included, into the technology space. Over these last 25 years I've embraced that circumstance and built a rather broad set of technology skills and experience. I'd say I'm strongest in UI/UX. But I'm comfortable from front-end to database, from ideation to implementation, from IDE to boardroom.
Your profession, like most things in life, is never really accidental. I'm reminded of Seamus Heaney's point that the act of creation is, in many ways, an act of excavation. Poems are not so much created as they are discovered, in parts, like an archeological dig. Like a poem, your career says something and something about you simultaneously because it all exposes the shards laid down in you.
These are the fragments I mostly see when I go about my digging.
I am curious, thoughtful, and intellectual. I like to think, to explore ideas, to deconstruct things and reconstruct them into subtly interesting and different forms. In certain ways I can be catalytic and, as a consequence, disruptive. I mean that mostly in the positive sense of driving transformation. Yet, I don't talk much; I'm pretty quiet. As much as I might lean toward the abstract, I am very much a maker, a builder. I like the feel of the concrete, created thing. I am happiest when I'm helping people and, in particular, when I help people get better at things.
You can contact me here: keith@[thisdomain]. And by [thisdomain], I mean keithpelletier.com.