I first learned to program on the Commodore 64 as a teenager 1985 and after some years I transitioned over to C programming, first on Amiga and then on Unix systems. I released my first source code to the public in the early 1990s - years before the term Open Source was first coined. I have since then spent many hours every week throughout my entire life contributing to Open Source projects, my own and others'. I have worked exclusively with Open Source professionally since 2014 for Mozilla and since 2019 for wolfSSL.