It is. I too find my competence profile a bit weird.
I've been interested in security since I was 12 yet never worked full time as a software developer. I have done some coding, but that was over a decade ago, and even then it wasn't very much.
On the other hand I understand the theoretical foundations of formal languages quite well, as well as the engineering required to implement them. I'm comfortable talking about any stage of the compiler pipeline, I can recite the Lambda cube and which logics the interesting corners correspond to, and I'm designing a family of programming languages in my free time.
I understand digital design fairly well too for that matter.
It is. I too find my competence profile a bit weird.
I've been interested in security since I was 12 yet never worked full time as a software developer. I have done some coding, but that was over a decade ago, and even then it wasn't very much.
On the other hand I understand the theoretical foundations of formal languages quite well, as well as the engineering required to implement them. I'm comfortable talking about any stage of the compiler pipeline, I can recite the Lambda cube and which logics the interesting corners correspond to, and I'm designing a family of programming languages in my free time.
I understand digital design fairly well too for that matter.