![]() Needless to say that, that was the best thing that could have happened to me! I was just trying to push the can down the road to not have to look for a job. My application was denied because the professor who interviewed me back then thought that I was probably not going to be a good developer. I decided to apply for a DEA, "Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies" (which is a master's degree postgraduate) for a Chemical Engineering Simulator software that was developed by my engineering school and called Prosim. I was myself writing code in Turbo Pascal to develop applications for the MacIntosh operating system.Īs the end of my engineering cycle was coming to an end, I was not sure what I wanted to do next: Continue my studies or find a job. In addition, I was the head of the “Computer Club” and was responsible for 5 Apple IIc machines for the students to either work or play ( Tetris was super-hot back then!). When I started my Chemical Engineering studies in Toulouse, I literally spent all my studies in the School Data Center writing Fortran 77 code on Unix machines. ![]() I immediately became attracted to that machine, and a couple of years later, I became the proud owner of an Oric Atmos 48K and started to write a lot of code in Basic and Assembly, saving all that code on tapes! In parallel, I also wrote a lot of code for my calculator that I had back then: Casio FX-702P. My career in tech started when I had a chance to touch a ZX 81 from Sinclair in Middle School, in the early 80s. As I was flying to Riviera Maya, Mexico, for a one-week Microsoft trip I was awarded with (I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of the Gold Club Circle of Excellence at the end of our FY23), I took the time to reflect on my 25-year anniversary at Microsoft, which happened on Sept 18, 2023.
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