Where I am from - Austin, TX originally, but went to school in Dallas and am currently employed in Houston. So I've lived in most of the major cities in Texas for extended periods of time.
What I Do - Systems Programmer for a financial services firm. Yes, Mainframe systems programming usually. Involves a lot of C, Assembly, and gasp JCL, aka shell scripts from literal hell.
Why BSD - I got into Linux a long time ago and just found the transition to BSD to be natural after a certain amount of time. Especially as I became a better C programmer and started to really appreciate the traditional UNIX approach to things, I.e. rejection of bloat and reinventing the wheel, adherence to standards, kernel and system utilities and libraries all developed and distributed as one package, etc.
Hacking on the BSDs had been of immense value as well in helping me in my day job, where I work on a very (I'd argue to a fault) traditional kind of UNIX, and where being able to leverage the strict POSIX compliance of a lot of BSD based utilities is a godsend for porting and making the lives of other system programmers a little bit nicer.
Hobbies - Dancing/clubbing, EDM, classical music, journaling and fountain pens and other fancy writing paraphernalia. Volleyball. Extremely amateurish electronics projects. Reading (mostly non-fiction).