At 13, Rob Martin was paid $30 for his first professional program. That program saved his customer $3 million in the next year. Rob suspects he underbid that project.

30+ years later, Rob is still programming. He had a thing for programming stuff that moves, industrial equipment and once a race car. Then the Web happened, and Rob was hooked.

Today Rob programs in Python, Ruby, and Javascript, runs a bunch of servers, and presents on programming, systems/network/cloud engineering, and a limited set of business topics. He’s @version2beta nearly everywhere online, but his kids call him Rad Dad Dude.