I was very inquisitive as a child. When I was younger, I would read my older brother's books, who is also an electrical engineer. That inspired me to become an engineer, as well. I always had this assumption I could only work either on hardware or software. But I didn't want to compromise! I discovered the field of embedded systems during my second year of college. It was love at the first lecture. There was something beautiful about designing a system whose hardware and software work together seamlessly to enable a specific application.