After only 13 months at radio.de I will be joining Kubermatic in August 2021. Long story short without going into details there was too much of a (engineering-)culture gap between radio.de and me.
I am now looking forward to become an active contributor in the “Cloud Native” world, working on open-source projects around Kubernetes. In my previous role at finleap connect I had only “consumed” Kubernetes as an engineer running software on it and during on-call duties, including monitoring and basic maintenance....
2020 has been a challenging year in many ways and I don’t want to reiterate the whole Corona thing, but it surely had some impact on my initial plan for that year:
2020 Career Goals Pass my CKA exam Get more comfortable writing go Reiterate my future career plan Start and keep blogging Because I left my former employer I stopped pursuing the CKA. On the parental leave I was busy parenting and after that my focus at work switched to the AWS Cloud....
I wanted to start this blog quite some time ago, I think at least 5 years ago. What kept me from actually doing it might have been a combination of procrastination and imposter syndrome.
To tackle the procrastination I am defining goals for 2020. To keep the chances of achieving these goals realistic I try to keep the list quite small and will divide each goal into sub-goals and will schedule a monthly check on how the progress on these goals is....