Hello from Japan. I've been reading DEV for a while and finally decided to stop lurking.
My career
I've spent about 20 years as a software engineer in Japan, mostly backend work in Java and PHP, plus AWS architecture for the last stretch of it. Large systems, the kind with two decades of history and a few modules nobody wants to touch.
Somewhere along the way I also started teaching languages, which I've been doing alongside engineering for the past 10 years. That combination is unusual enough that people ask about it, so: I never left engineering for teaching. I just do both, and they turned out to overlap more than I expected.
Why I started using DEV
