I spent a large amount of my college career hanging out at Cem Kaner’s house talking testing and sipping homemade lattes. And let me tell you: Cem makes a mean latte.

But before this, when I was a sophomore at Florida Tech, when I first started working with Cem, he invited me to a few of his LAWST style peer-workshops that jump-started my career. I didn’t think I could participate — I was a nervous college student with about 1/100th the experience of anyone in those rooms — but I ended up making an impression on the people there. In an odd display of acceptance, I was growled at by James Bach and Micheal Bolton (repeatedly) because I sunk my teeth into their testing problems and wouldn’t let go. They called me and a few other students ‘wolves,’ and I’ve run with the name ever since.

Thank you Cem, James, Michael and all who graciously welcomed me into their community.

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Tim Coulter is a software quality engineer at Intent Media, Inc. in New York City. Find out more about Tim at www.timothyjcoulter.com.