I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
I've never technically had a developer job, but I've ended up with some development duties in my current IT position (largely because I actually know what I'm doing when it comes to development), and my versatility was part of why I got hired in the first place.
Walking into the interview, I had sufficient knowledge to be comfortable coding in Python and Lua. I also had enough knowledge to at least understand and write basic code in POSIX shell script, C, C++, BASIC, HTML & CSS, and Java, and on top of that had passing knowledge of REXX, COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and Scheme (specifically Racket) to the degree that I could at least understand code written in those languages.
I've since then gotten pretty rusty in everything but Python and shell script, though I've been re-learning HTML & CSS recently alongside learning JavaScript, and have as part of my job gotten to the point that I'm 'fluent' in HTTP, SMTP and to a lesser extent, SQL.
I've never technically had a developer job, but I've ended up with some development duties in my current IT position (largely because I actually know what I'm doing when it comes to development), and my versatility was part of why I got hired in the first place.
Walking into the interview, I had sufficient knowledge to be comfortable coding in Python and Lua. I also had enough knowledge to at least understand and write basic code in POSIX shell script, C, C++, BASIC, HTML & CSS, and Java, and on top of that had passing knowledge of REXX, COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and Scheme (specifically Racket) to the degree that I could at least understand code written in those languages.
I've since then gotten pretty rusty in everything but Python and shell script, though I've been re-learning HTML & CSS recently alongside learning JavaScript, and have as part of my job gotten to the point that I'm 'fluent' in HTTP, SMTP and to a lesser extent, SQL.
Thats really cool! I guess without constant practice its hard not get rusty with code.