Thanks for the info. I'm kind of burned out on the shiny new things, so C and maintainability sound like a breath of fresh air. I think reading an OS paper from ~1983 that described what is effectively Kubernetes (with working prototype written in ML) really drove home how little the fundamentals of our industry change.
The way I describe my career goals now is: I want to work in a domain where quality and performance is the product.
I hadn't considered getting an MBA and using it in that way, that's something that I will take a hard look at. Thanks for the advice!
Thanks for the suggestions! I hadn't thought about places like Wolfram Research or MathWorks. I'll keep my eye on those. I'm working on picking up more C++ since that seems to be what everything I'm interested in is using.
I'm very interested in leaving the dev farms for something more interesting. I'm taking steps in that direction, but do you have any advice on how you escaped into scientific software dev?
The way I describe my career goals now is: I want to work in a domain where quality and performance is the product.
I hadn't considered getting an MBA and using it in that way, that's something that I will take a hard look at. Thanks for the advice!