Shortly after starting my career in IT, my team started to embrace the DevOps mentality and it's been pretty hard to look back. As a developer in today's world, I feel lucky and empowered to have access to tools like Ansible & Terraform, so a big part of this is fueled by a desire to strengthen my DevOps skills. Personally, I have found that wearing many hats is key to becoming a more well-rounded programmer as well. And that means learning about all the pieces involved, not just the application layers. So the days of working in a black box are over for me!
Over time, I also became much more educated on the issues of data privacy and how we blindly trust Tech Giants to not misuse our information. It worries me that often times we are not even aware there is any manipulation happening. I think that fear, combined w
