Why would Panasjuk, a 35-year-old software engineer living in Boston, do that?

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At the time, Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer, was living in Ottawa, Canada.

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Justin Ferrari, a software engineer and water-polo coach, was shot in the head on May 24th while driving with his two children and his parents.

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As a software engineer David Zhao was happy wearing jeans and a T-shirt, day in, day out.

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Google claims it collected wi-fi data because of rogue code mistakenly included in the software by a lone engineer.

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One of the volunteers was Ali Amirnazmi, an Iranian-born Stanford-educated chemical engineer who had developed powerful software, which he sold by subscription, for strategic planning in the chemical manufacturing industries.

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"Just make sure you think through what is going to happen in the worst case scenario, " says Mr Tippett, a 28-year-old software engineer.

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