Sometimes, megacorp hits a problem and it doesn't have the right cog in the drawer. Maybe it's because no one in-house has the needed knowledge for it. Maybe because it's a genuinely hard problem. Maybe it's because everything's on fire.

I'm a hybrid of self-taught and formally trained developer, with a chaotic twist. Most of the time, I do normal work. Sometimes, the megacorp hits a problem that it cannot solve; when that happens, I'm summoned from high-up, summarily briefed and then air-dropped like a paratrooper into unknown territory.

I'm the one called in when there's no one else left to call. There's nothing I can't seem to solve under these conditions, but I tend to deliver Faustian solutions: I'll save the day, but it will cost you. I won't go into details here, but some of my unholy and heretical contraptions I've produced in those situations took years to subsequently defuse.