Also have a look at Jeff Dean’s programming timeline

A cozy chronological journey through thirty-five years of code, computers, paradigms, and stacks.

🕹️ 1991 — After-School Lessons & 8-Bit Hardware

Commodore 64 & BASIC

My very first programming experiences after school 🚸. Typing POKE & PEEK memory commands directly into BASIC on 8-bit Commodore 64 hardware.

  • Stack: BASIC, Commodore 64

💻 1995 — Own Computer & Web Dawn

Pentium 133MHz • 64MB RAM • MS-DOS & Windows

Building my first personal scripts and early web experiments.

  • Automation & DBs: VBScript, Office Macros, MS Access
  • Web & Interactive: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Macromedia Flash ActionScript
  • Backend Early Days: ASP.NET (IIS / Access), moving from WAMP to LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Bash

🌐 1997 — Internet at Home

56kbps Dial-Up Era 🏠

Connecting home internet at 56kbps. Building full-stack web applications with LAMP, PHP, MySQL, and dynamic script automation.

⚙️ 1999 — Computer Science & Systems Engineering

University CS Engineering

Deep technical dive into low-level foundations, object-oriented systems, and numerical modeling.

  • Languages & Modeling: MATLAB, C, C++, Java, UML architectural design
  • Systems & Data: x86 Assembler, relational SQL database design

🐍 2006 — Network Automation & Systems Engineering

Joined Cisco Systems

Architecting mission-critical infrastructure for enterprise, EU institutions, and defense. Scripting router/switch plane behaviors and expanding into modern systems languages.

  • Network Automation: Cisco IOS TCL
  • Modern Systems: Python, Rust, CoffeeScript, server-side Node.js

☁️ 2018 — Google Cloud & Machine Learning

Joined Google Cloud as Customer Engineer

Designing scalable enterprise architectures on GCP.

  • Cloud & Distributed: High-throughput Go services, TypeScript
  • Machine Learning: TensorFlow with Keras
  • Cross-Platform: Flutter

🤖 2021 — Post-Quantum Security & Scratch Education

Crypto-Agility & Next-Gen Mentorship

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): Crypto-agility design, GKE container resilience, and quantum-safe security architectures.
  • Next Generation: Teaching fundamental algorithmic logic and block programming to kids with Scratch 👾.

⚡ 2022 — Generative Pre-trained Transformers & LLMs

The Deep Learning Tipping Point

  • Arrival of large-scale Transformer architectures (BERT, GPT, foundational LLMs).
  • AI transition from isolated classifiers to generative reasoning partners.

🧠 2023 — Open-Weight Revolution & Local LLMs

Sovereign Inference & Model Protocol Infrastructure

  • Open-weight ecosystem explosion (Llama, Gemma, Ollama).
  • Running local GPU inference engines and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations 🚀.

🔮 2024 — Multimodal Gemini 1.5 & Vibe Coding

Long Context & Multimodal Native Intelligence

  • Million-token context windows with Gemini 1.5 Pro & Vertex AI.
  • Native audio/video reasoning and the emergence of fast, iterative Vibe Coding workflows ✨.

🐝 2025 — Agentic Revolution & Swarm Intelligence

Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems

  • Transition from single-prompt chat to autonomous multi-agent swarms using Google’s ADK (Agent Development Kit).
  • Autonomous long-running code refactoring, automated security audits, and domain research swarms (DeepSeek, Unsloth) 👾.

🚀 2026+ — Gemini 3.5 & Autonomous AI Engineering

SRE Co-Piloting & Self-Healing Cloud

  • Full pair programming & SRE co-piloting with Google Antigravity & Gemini 3.5.
  • Serverless multi-agent topologies operating zero-downtime, self-healing cloud architectures with active chaos resilience 🛡️.