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Advanced Computer Science Masters Personal Statement
I’ve always been fascinated with computer systems and networking. I taught myself the C programming language at age 16, and installed my first Linux distribution at age 17. This motivation drew me to study my bachelors degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at X University, and to work in the industry for five years after graduation.
While taking the degree course, I became interested in distributed systems and network programming, and took Distributed Systems as my specialist course option in the third year. We were given an academic paper on Distributed Hash Tables, a broken Java implementation of DHTs, and the course assignment was to fix the implementation. I found this really interesting, and so for my third year project, I built a distributed system in Java for a local software company.
After university, I worked as a web application developer, before moving on to the IT/systems side of things, where I administrated Linux systems and web application servers, including a high availability Java web application cluster. Most recently I worked full-time as a build and configuration engineer on enterprise-level Java application stacks for Y bank.
My reasons for application; I wish to learn about distributed systems at a very detailed level, so that I may one day be able to design and implement them as a systems architect. I am currently undertaking independent study towards my Z certification to further this goal, and studying to refresh my Java knowledge, while employed part-time in remote Linux server administration work.
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