This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Victor Trac, 45, a DevOps engineer and entrepreneur. His words have been edited for length and clarity. Growing up in South Carolina, I was always into computers. In high school, I built and sold PCs to my friends and their parents and provided tech support before earning a degree in electrical engineering and math. After college, my then-girlfriend Rebecca — now my wife, who I've known since elementary school — took a teaching job in France,