My first brush with coding was when I saw my sister print a pattern of asterisks on the screen. This was enough to excite the 12-year old me, and I remember I had spent the next few days combing through her book, trying to understand loops and printf statements. That was my first foray into technology and there was no looking back from there. My mother was a huge inspiration behind my career path. Although she never sat down and taught us lessons, she taught us just by living. My mother is a Botany student and inspite of having graduated around 35 years back, even today she can identify and name flowers and plants with their scientific name. Her love for science is something she unknowingly passed on me, and I can never thank her enounce for that!