I joined SETI@home back in 1999 while I was attending Wentworth Institute of Technology for my Computer Engineer Technology undergrad and I've kept up running work units through the years.
After undergrad I started working at Analog Devices in their audio semiconductor product line, which lead to working at a company called Conexant which also produced audio chips.
Lately I'm working for a company called Bigbelly as a software engineer. Bigbelly makes solar powered IoT connected waste receptacles (fancy cellular trash cans).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home because I believe in listening for what's out there, and that sometimes you make discoveries when you're not necessarily intending to.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.