I have used Unix systems (specifically, FreeBSD) since 1998 when I stumbled across FreeBSD purely by chance, and ended up installing it and finding it a much more fun, interesting, reliable, and powerful, than the Windows installation it shared my computer at the time with.

In the summer of 2000 I was given a FreeBSD commit bit (login ben@FreeBSD.org) to work on the documentation - this was a result of me sending many small PRs, but all with suitable patches included. Unfortunately in September 2000 I started my degree and after leaving university I went straight into a full-time job, so I have had very little time to work on FreeBSD since then.

I now work for gradwell dot com who use FreeBSD almost exclusively on their servers.