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[Bachelor's student of engineering science, focus on aerospace engineering]
Took required courses in C, FPGAs, Smalltalk. Almost got lured away from aerospace engineering by computer engineering because I loved both. For my Bachelor's thesis, wrote a Java applet to teach a fluid dynamics concept

[Master's Student in Aerospace Engineering]
For my thesis, wrote a flight simulator for an experimental aircraft my colleagues were building, prototyped in Matlab and implemented in C

[PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics]
Developed a new optimization algorithm, applied to aircraft design, and implemented it in Matlab. Ported an ancient Fortran IV aerodynamic code to Matlab. Dabbled in Python for the first time and loved it

[Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering]
Didn't code much myself but supervised students and postdocs who did. Found academia wasn't really for me.

[Aeronautical Engineer]
Worked in a group to design a specific part. Automated the analysis process with Python.

[Lifecycle Engineer]
Weird title but it essentially meant I did a lot of statistics to predict failures in aircraft parts. Automated a good chunk of the job using Python

[Data Scientist at Aerospace Engineering firm]
Current, new, role. Title is data scientist but the team is so small I am now essentially a full stack developer. I can do data science and Python but I know nothing about the front end so I have a lot to learn.

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I don't know where I want to go. I am enjoying developing full time for now. I don't want to go into management so my options may be limited.