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| Paper: |
From AI to L2 and Beyond: A Software Engineer Career Turned into a Journey Through Fascinating Territories, Landscapes and, of Course, Languages |
| Volume: |
541, ADASS XXXIII |
| Page: |
331 |
| Authors: |
Andrea Balestra |
| DOI: |
10.26624/ZLHV9347 |
| Abstract: |
A paper about my career as a software engineer and how I like to see it
as a journey through many different territories, landscapes and, of course, languages.
Do not expect leadership or big money: I have been, and still I am, only a modest
but curious traveler. My journey started more than thirty years ago in the land of AI
with a master thesis on an “Expert System,” as rules-based AI was called at the time,
and continued through remote observing, the birth of the web, telescope control systems, detector controllers, programming standards, virtualization, space applications
(L2), MBSE, Software Quality Assurance, and still continues even if the final station
is not so far away. Different landscapes under the sky of Astronomical projects: spectral classification, AI, Electronics, System Engineering, Control Software... different
organizations and different countries. Also, different languages, some of them long forgotten: from Fortran to Occam, Ksh, Bash, C, C++, Java, Python etc. Not a journey
that will make it to any travel guide but maybe it can give hints to other fellow travelers
when the moment of picking the next destination arrives. I then also hope this travel
experience can be of interest to the people visited by travelers like me in understanding
what the spirit of a wandering software engineer is. |
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