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
I talk about my technology career path in my post How Covid & Cancer Impacted My Career, but to summarize:
The following were concurrent...
Since 2020:
Web developer. (FE and UX focused)
Hoping to continue as dev. 😁
Over 20 years
Over the course 17 years now.
Was quite a ride.
-> 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 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 😂
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.