So Amir Rajan was a burnt-out C# consultant who tried to change the .net world through open-source projects and concluded that he had failed. So he took a sabbatical and embraced indie game development.

And luckily for him, his game was eventually a wild success. He was getting written up in the New York Times and The New Yorker.

Now, Rajan builds DragonRuby, a game runtime, to help others follow his path.