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From corporate DevOps to freelance full-stack

Richard Lenkovits on December 19, 2019

I left my corporate DevOps job, to become a fully freelance full-stack web developer - this is a quick post to share some thoughts on it. ...
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Carlos A. Blanco

Well-written piece, Richard! Just an idea: write about your customer acquisition process. Best of luck in your journey!!

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Richard Lenkovits

Hi Carlos, thank you very much!

Well, unfortunately - or fortunately - there is not much to tell about that. I was connected to a client through a friend when I started, and they have been supplying me with work ever since :D I got lucky. I don't even know what would I do without this. I'd probably end up on Fiverr, and Upwork.

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Carlos A. Blanco

Thanks for the response, Richard! Again, best of luck in your endeavors.

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Cyber Naskar

Excellent article Richard. All the very best for your future endeavors!

Also, I'm currently a junior dev (backend) and after researching about DevOps and understanding it's value in a software business, I accrued a lot of interest in it.

I'll be asking my manager to move me into a DevOps position in the upcoming months. It would be really nice if you could provide some suggestions or tips for this exciting transition, since you have already experienced this before. :)

I've recently decided to put some time on studying OS and Networking concepts to get me started into the very basics.

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Richard Lenkovits

Hi! Thank you for the wishes.

So all around the industry people define devops differently. It's a bit vague but for me devops is every kind of development related work except for the product development itself. :D so builds, continuous integration, environment management, site reliability, automated deployment, release automation etc. So this can be different depending on the products you guys have. I would tell you to refresh your bash/unix/networking knowledge, but who knows what you need there. All I can say is that I believe it can be an extremely useful thing to get involved in devops because you can learn an immense amount of things that can be useful if you end up managing your own software/business someday.

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Cyber Naskar

Excellent! Thank you Richard.

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Björn Potgieter

I really enjoyed this Richard! Very well-written.

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Richard Lenkovits

Thank you very much! :)

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Ryan Ellis

The best and most accurate description of a corporate IT architect 🤣

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Martin Feineis

I can very much rely to feeling some sort of "loyalty/obligation" to the first company that kinda give you a "chance". Luckily I got laid off from my first job, that made it easy.

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Rich Steinmetz

Well done, Rich. However, it sounds a little bit like the one-man army could consider a bit of help from some mercenaries from time to time, so that you keep the balance and all ;)

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Gustavo Martins T Borges

I'm in a same situation, but I'm looking to start working as a functional full stack developer (elm + elixir). I felt good to read this :)

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billywatsy

its like an edited piece written by a Lawyer , only to realize the programmer is also gifted in both worlds , nice article thanks