Hey! I'm Brian, and I've been working as a Product Engineer at Inato since July 2022, when I landed my first job ever in the tech industry! This followed a daring career switch that began in the summer of 2019, after 12 years in the specialty coffee industry.
The switch to software engineering came naturally to me. Growing up in the 90s, my father worked as a programmer for an aerospace engine manufacturer. This meant that I started interacting with computers from a very young age, which was not so common for my generation. By the age of 10, I could write a bit of code. However, since I wasn't very good at math in middle and high school, I suffered from the bias that programming wasn't a career for me to excel in. Instead, it became a great interest that I pursued on the side.
Fast forward to 2007, when I landed in Toronto, Canada. I stepped into the first decent coffee shop of my life. Coming from Paris and its culture of Cafés, the place but not much the produc