Recap
My last post here is that I was having my 2020 goals. Unfortunately I wasn't able to accomplish most of the stuff written there. My life went to another direction after that time.
What happened
After working on one of those goals, A lot has happened from moving to teams to going to a new company
2020-2021: During this time the company I was part of re-shuffled the team. Instead of having the time to work on those goals I needed to be accustomed to the team: New standards, practices, and principles. It was also the reason why I have left the company. I was unhappy with the change.
From having a freedom to follow a day to day process. I was not also happy of always having a buy mindset first before building. I felt like I wasn't valuable anymore to the company/team.
2021-2022: This new work I had was a shock to me. Because I needed to report to a client. From having a consistent team to needing to change clients every month or so. At first I was anxious about it because I wasn't a great communicator but over the course of months I got used to it and became a better communicator. On top of that I have the opportunity to use different types of technologies (ohh shiny new toys). I have also felt that I became a better developer I experienced a lot of new challenges and problems that I know for sure that I won't experience if I have sticked to a product based company.
2022-Present
A new year a new me. I always wanted to try out doing DevOps so I asked to shift my career from Software Development to DevOps. I was happy with the move I learned a lot and I felt It made me a better software engineer. I learned a lot of the Ops side and it opened my eyes on how valuable knowing that stuff for a software engineer. But it is not always a happy time. For the first 6 months I struggled. Learning about networking, cloud design patterns, and cloud architecture it was a daunting task but I managed to pull through. Gotten a lot of azure certifications and will try to have more. If there's somebody who will ask me for advice moving from software development to DevOps. You will need to be prepared for the steep learning curve ahead! It is not impossible to do and having a developer background already puts you ahead of other people coming from other domain.
To the future!
Now even though I am quite happy with my current role I am still doing development. In my free time instead of studying about DevOps or tools relating to it I always see my self doing development projects. Maybe on my next update ill be a developer but who knows.
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