Meaning, of course, that he is not elitist -- he just had to share these crucial facts about himself.
but the rest of that sentence says "... , I have seen a wide variety of personalities and egos amongst computer scientists and software engineers."
the point of that paragraph was to establish that i had experience in interacting with CS people from a variety of backgrounds, both from so-called elitist places and from less elitist places (i suppose i should've also listed the other lesser-known places where i've worked and gone to school, but since by definition they're not well-known 'elitist' places, you probably wouldn't have heard of them anyways)
wow, had i known that my article would someday be posted on a news aggregator site, i would've definitely been more politically correct in my word choice :)
I was just struck by the contrast between this and when you state later on that people who attend elite institutions generally do not share where they've worked ;-)
Your essay did make a nice point though, one that I did not previously consider!