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Kevin Eugene Ong • Edited

hey everyone, i'm kevin.

I started the journey 18 months ago; I first studied RoR in a coding bootcamp. Got a job at an airline company & learned Nodejs on the go to build Lambda functions for work. Right now i'm the devops lead for an e-commerce venture the under my company. Our stack primarily Magento 2, Angular 2 running on AWS.

In my free time i learn python for text sentiment analysis & the backend of an airline chatbot. Not pro-AWS but familiar; not anti-GCP either.

Who here are from airline companies? Say hi! :)

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Not from an airline company, but that does make me think about what airline companies do with software more.

Also, you're killing it; 18 months later and you're a DevOps lead? Congrats dude!

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Kevin Eugene Ong

Thanks man. It was a super bumpy ride with countless mistakes.

There's plenty of ways airlines seek to innovate from facial-recognition to speed up check-ins to buying flights and luggage via an AI assistant.

but to get to lead the devops my coding time had to take a hit. gotta spend less time looking at Cloudwatch dashboards!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I for one am looking forward to the day where we have instant check-ins on planes. Or luggage tracking! I've never had my luggage go missing but I imagine it must be a nightmare.

I don't think I'll ever stop wanting to code. I'm sure that'll change a bit in say, 18 months, but maybe not. Are you going to keep up with side projects or have you done a bit of coding as a DevOps lead?