David Brooks is a life long computer enthusiast. He starting building computers at home with his family when he was nine and started to dig into programming at 11 with QBasic in a DOS 6 environment. He first got into Linux with Redhat 6 in 1999 and hasn't looked back since. He has worked in various roles including desktop support, system administration, programmer, project management, cyber security etc.. since 2002. He earned his BS in CS from the University of New Orleans in 2019 and is currently pursuing his MS in CS from The University of New Orleans with a focus on the technical challenges that video game developers stare down. He is a cyber security engineer by day, gamer, student and indie game developer by night.