The latest articles on DEV Community by Michael Whitis (@shroudedmoon). https://dev.to/shroudedmoon https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F10749%2FQNeGQ2m2.jpg https://dev.to/shroudedmoon en Michael Whitis Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:39:46 +0000 https://dev.to/shroudedmoon/is-the-idea-of-an-tech-generalist-dead-3k3j https://dev.to/shroudedmoon/is-the-idea-of-an-tech-generalist-dead-3k3j <p>I'm a 20+ year veteran of the tech industry. 18 of those years have been at a large fortune 500 company. I've always considered myself a generalist rather than a specialist because I've always had many irons in the fire.</p> <p>For example, at one point, I was doing the following (amongst other things):</p> <ul> <li>Managing middleware and servers for a legacy application</li> <li>Coding updates for the legacy application</li> <li>Managing 3 teams of developers </li> <li>Designing and coding the legacy application's replacement</li> <li>Designing and implementing an Azure infrastructure</li> <li>Designing and implementing an AWS infrastructure for another project</li> </ul> <p>Looking at new roles, it seems like everything is very specialized, and I'm not seeing these types of generalist roles that I had in the past. I'm guessing this is a result of an agile/devops mindset that hadn't quite made it into my teams.</p> <p>Curious to hear from other folks what they're seeing, and if there's any life in a generalist career.</p> career