Ignites - Zero to DevOps in less than a year...
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Claims rapid career change from zero IT experience to Assistant DevOps Engineer at Pew Research Center within a year and being offered 4 of 5 DevOps jobs, backed by concrete work: building a centralized data pipeline and automating it on an AWS free tier account using Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD. Tools actually used include Python, Django, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Linux and NLP/transcribes with BERT style models. Mentorship and meetups drive progress and the home‑grown experiments successfully scale into production workflows.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31Tracking global legislators on twitter
- 0:46AWS and Python
- 1:01Growing computational social science by making data more accessible
- 1:46Linux Sys Admin and finding a community
- 3:01Coding in Python
- 3:31Mentors!
- 3:46Exchanging of information
- 4:01Everyone can be a mentor
- 4:16What do opportunities look like?
- 4:31What do opportunities sound like?
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