My name is Esteban Smits. I’m a developer, architect, friend and motivator. I work in the Dallas Area for an accounting firm . This site , it’s content and opinions are all my own. I write about development, new technology, gadgets, integration, robotics and my opinion on the social\technology landscape as a whole.
My Background
I started work in the Dallas area on with a hosting startup from Florida that wanted some development chops; we made around 200 websites and around 30 applications from a variety of different industries over the course of 2 1/2 years. Moved on to build up one of our larger clients fostering their growth from a 3 man operation to a 60 + staff \16 million annual operation. Continued my journey in a growing division of a Fortune 100 company, cutting 10% of its cost year to year for the last 3 years consecutively. Today , I support companies going to the Cloud, proper architecture and guide business hands to understand the value of doing things well.
Non Sequiturs
I personally didn’t have a computer until I was 19 and enrolled in college as a CompSci major, but I believed computing was going to change everything. My brother made me copy code out of old magazines to make programs, but at the time I had no interest in computers (other than playing Archon on his Atari). I built my first stand alone application at the age of 20 with 2 friends from college , a POS inventory system for a hardware store. I have a personal relationship with my creator, and I have been married for 22 years.