I am an HVAC, fire alarm, and security applications engineer at Schneider Electric. My education was in electrical engineering, and I have professional experience in process automation. I program as a hobby, though most of my programming recently has been task automation at work (primarily in PowerShell, VBA, and AutoLisp). I am a proponent of using FOSS and open standards wherever it make sense, and I hate walled gardens that waste my time on pointless obfuscation. Information wants to be free, but bad people exist, and food costs money; convince me of the best balance for IP protection.