We're not all just "programmers" — over time we become web devs, lead devs, SREs, etc.
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We're not all just "programmers" — over time we become web devs, lead devs, SREs, etc.
What's your story?
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Mr Incredible 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Like my grand master used to say: "I'm not better than you, just longer at it."
Started off editing textbooks, then learnt to edit technical content (maths and science focused) before moving into software development.
In the software development field I have had experience at most aspects since I work for a small company. This means wearing many hats and getting to find what I really care about.
Not! Doing essentially the same thing as in the beginning, only better (I hope).
Developer -> Developer
It's always been my speciality over 26 years. Dabbling a bit in other roles here and there as needs be, but still first and foremost a developer
I've being a developer for all my adult life.
This is the only thing I know how to do.
I get bored easily but I know only one trade
The following were concurrent...
Since 2020:
Web developer. (FE and UX focused)
Hoping to continue as dev. 😁
Over 20 years
I talk about my technology career path in my post How Covid & Cancer Impacted My Career, but to summarize:
Over the course 17 years now.
Was quite a ride.
I was a developer that dabbled in design for fun until like, October? November?
Now I'm a mess of BA, Architect, QA Automation Engineer, Designer, Scrum Master, DevOps, Developer and Dog Trainer.
Now dear Universe... when will I get my chance at leadership?! >:VVVVVVVVV throws table
Ah and don't worry about me, I'm not overwhelmed by this. It's been quite natural and I welcome this new learning phase in my career 😂
-> Freelancer (Dev, UI, UX, SEO, DevOps, ...)
-> Employed (mainly frontend, but technically full-stack)
Between the end of school and going freelance for a few years (while leading a nomad-ish life), I've had a couple of jobs not in IT, although having been trained in IT through school.
I started coding in El Salvador in VB6 in 2006, but over the years, I moved to .NET to be precise ASP.NET and web development. In 2014, I moved to Poland where I started a new chapter and carried with .NET, but mainly between ASP.NET and WPF with minor work in Azure. The biggest change happened when one of my Team Leaders after commanded me: "Hey, you need to migrate this DB server for the next Monday."
I had no experience doing any migration in my life. The first time was hard if not extremely challenging since I was moving sensitive data, but in the end I suceeded. The following years, I became the migrations experts and started to get involved in moving not only DBs, but entire ecosystems from on-prems to Azure.
Another crazy twist happened in 2018, when I got involved in the RPAs business since no one in my company wanted to do this "dirty" job, but I was open to it. I became the first person working with Automation Anywhere in Poland and started to even train people across the organization, persuading them that building virtual bots was not a bad idea. This brought new businesses and clients to our department.
The most recent change happend in 2020, I was hired in Spain, but my work permit took 5 months to be delivered. When I was hired, I was hired to work with Azure, but life was tricky and during those 5 months many things had changed, when I arrived, my new manager asked me: "Do you know about AWS?" I had no idea about the AWS, so, he entrusted me the migration of new servers from on-prem to AWS using serverless. This was a new intense journey since I moved from coding to leading teams and introducing serverless, cloud native, etc. and several new concepts in a new sector (maybe even the dark side of the force) called AWS.
Nowadays, I am mainly leading migrations to AWS using Cloud Native, but who knows what would be the next twist. Maybe I'd be in New Zealand leading the development of the next industrial revolution.
Thanks for asking.
started of as an hobbyist, wanted to create stuff and share with others, so I created a website with Excel, and then shared it with my peers on USB drives.
Then I discovered HTML JS and CSS. From here on it's a downhill into this huge rabbit hole that is my passion.
From PHP to Node, to Go. Started of building websites and working now on the cloud as a SSE :D.
P.s. during the journey I tried lots of different things such as IoT dev, Security, Mobile dev and many others.
p.p.s. Right now I'm trying to learn how to dev a game (ofc starting from 3d modeling)
Software engineer -> SRE -> Lead SRE
Started off working as IT support for a small company, progressed to learn about servers, databases and lots more on the sysadmin side before switching sides to become a developer which is what my day job today is.
Well I'm not officially a developer so there's that, and I work a lot on tooling for other people but otherwise still a frontend expert at heart
Digital Artist -> Hardware Guy -> Game Dev -> current self
Developer -> DevOps within 3 years. DevOps/SRE sounds more interesting to me, although I miss backend dev sometimes.