An Electrical Engineer here who vowed during my 1 programming class in school that I would never hate myself enough to write code for a living. Two years of co-ops with an older generation of EE’s doing things manually led me to learn to make tools to make that job bearable.. then I fell in love with software and am closing in on a decade of it.. Never actually have done any Electrical Engineering 😆
I guess you could say you were lucky that you found early on that you should actually be writing software. What we want is not always what we need :). What does your job entail at the moment? Thank you for your input.
Thanks for asking. I guess I’d be best described as a tool developer. I work for an electronics manufacturer that is currently undergoing an initiative to design their products for manufacturability as well as customer functionality. I identify high value or high risk areas in manufacturing of our products and build tools to ensure our R&D engineers are solving the right problems.
Yeah, it’s a full-stack that varies in what it produces. It’s just about empowering our employees to be efficient as possible within our processes. Sometimes it means a new web app, sometimes it means rolling functionality of an app into something else and automating it away. We also build GUI’s for the operators that build on our manufacturing line, so that is very UX heavy - there’s no guarantee of how experienced our users are or whether they even speak our language and we build some fairly complex parts, so we lean a lot on current best accessibility practices to make things as clear as possible
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An Electrical Engineer here who vowed during my 1 programming class in school that I would never hate myself enough to write code for a living. Two years of co-ops with an older generation of EE’s doing things manually led me to learn to make tools to make that job bearable.. then I fell in love with software and am closing in on a decade of it.. Never actually have done any Electrical Engineering 😆
I guess you could say you were lucky that you found early on that you should actually be writing software. What we want is not always what we need :). What does your job entail at the moment? Thank you for your input.
Yeah, definitely lucky. :)
Thanks for asking. I guess I’d be best described as a tool developer. I work for an electronics manufacturer that is currently undergoing an initiative to design their products for manufacturability as well as customer functionality. I identify high value or high risk areas in manufacturing of our products and build tools to ensure our R&D engineers are solving the right problems.
Never heard of tool developers, must be interesting. Does your job have UX parts in it?
Yeah, it’s a full-stack that varies in what it produces. It’s just about empowering our employees to be efficient as possible within our processes. Sometimes it means a new web app, sometimes it means rolling functionality of an app into something else and automating it away. We also build GUI’s for the operators that build on our manufacturing line, so that is very UX heavy - there’s no guarantee of how experienced our users are or whether they even speak our language and we build some fairly complex parts, so we lean a lot on current best accessibility practices to make things as clear as possible