--- title: From not growing up with computers to senior engineer -... description: A senior engineer shares their unconventional journey into tech, having grown up without computers at home in Mumbai. Their only early exposure to computers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-not-growing-up-with-computers-to-senior-engineer---thanks-to-prince-of-persia-gl9eybzri twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From not growing up with computers to senior engineer - thanks to Prince of Persia | daily.dev og:description: A senior engineer shares their unconventional journey into tech, having grown up without computers at home in Mumbai. Their only early exposure to computers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-not-growing-up-with-computers-to-senior-engineer---thanks-to-prince-of-persia-gl9eybzri og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GL9eyBZrI.png og:image:alt: From not growing up with computers to senior engineer - thanks to Prince of Persia og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From not growing up with computers to senior engineer - thanks to Prince of Persia **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A senior engineer shares their unconventional journey into tech, having grown up without computers at home in Mumbai. Their only early exposure to computers was playing Prince of Persia on CD-ROM at school, yet this limited experience sparked enough interest to pursue a career in computing, ultimately leading to a senior engineering role. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devsammyy** · 0 upvotes > I don't understand. So you played Prince of Persia and you become a senior software engineer??? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1](https://daily.dev/posts/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1-olvdep2te) · Random ASCII · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Stories From 25 Years of Software Development](https://daily.dev/posts/stories-from-25-years-of-software-development-tyrqyzpoj) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64](https://daily.dev/posts/i-owe-my-life-to-the-commodore-64-22h0okzcb) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-not-growing-up-with-computers-to-senior-engineer---thanks-to-prince-of-persia-gl9eybzri) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From not growing up with computers to senior engineer - thanks to Prince of Persia","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-not-growing-up-with-computers-to-senior-engineer---thanks-to-prince-of-persia-gl9eybzri","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-not-growing-up-with-computers-to-senior-engineer---thanks-to-prince-of-persia-gl9eybzri"},"datePublished":"2026-01-23T13:28:16.160Z","dateModified":"2026-01-23T13:28:38.143Z","description":"A senior engineer shares their unconventional journey into tech, having grown up without computers at home in Mumbai. 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