Slappendash wasn't born to run the shadows. But now, given her past, she has nothing else she can do; no corporation will ever hire her after what she did.
Slappendash was born Cameron Erikson in an Ares facility. Her parents were happy wageslaves; her mother worked as a security guard and her father was a quality control tester. Both parents actively encouraged her to seek Ares improvement from the day she was born, enrolling her in Ares-controlled education programs from the earliest possible age. In fact, an Ares-sponsored counselor eventually talked to them about that, as the counselor felt they were pushing her too hard for her to turn out an effective employee. For her own part, Cameron was happy to follow along in her parent's footsteps, though she soon found she excelled in areas related to security and mechanical engineering.
When she turned 18, Slappendash was accepted into Ares' spider rigger training program, where she was given hands-on training on how to control drones. She excelled in the program, making her parents proud, and soon found herself monitoring a section of security without supervision. It was then when she met him; smart, attractive, and a new name in the research department. He seemed to return her interest, and soon the two spent every moment they could flirting.
And then it happened. The two were flirting, the innuendo became drone-heavy, and then they went farther. Much farther. Then, afterwards, she sent him back to work, smiling happily... until she noticed she had forgotten about still connected to the system. She discovered, much to her horror, that she had been sending commands to a drone the entire time, and the result was that the drone had spent the entire time chasing and shooting at some poor wage slave in accounting, and had managed to completely expend all of its ammo in the pursuit. The wageslave had secreted himself in a closet and could easily be heard sobbing through the heavily-reinforced door. And then she noticed the new researcher getting in a car with a troll and a couple others, all heavily armed, on one of the security feeds.
The next day, she discovered the truth: Her newfound lover was not an employee at all, but a shadowrunner who had used fake credentials to gain entry and perform surveillance. The night of their tryst was the night a shadowrun was going on and his job was to distract her. Her boss, wryly commenting that the security feeds were very revealing to watch, informed her that she was fired. She was promised that the security footage would be kept tightly sealed away, but was politely informed that any inquiries by other potential employers would get them a very interesting video to watch.
With nothing left except what money she had saved and an embarrassing nickname given to her by her former co-workers, Slappendash found herself on the streets. She used what she could of her money to acquire a van and some drones, and now is looking for less-than-legal work. In particular, she wants vengeance for her utter humiliation. And she's hoping no one finds out about why she's running the shadows.
(The moment you said "secret shame," this idea popped into my head and I just had to retool the backstory a bit to fit it.)
