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My journey into the programming space

At the beginning of my career I've had the choice to go down the Developer or the Sys Admin route and the decission at the time was clear that I wanted to design, build and manage infrastructure.
In recent years we have seen how the lines between these two fileds have become more and more blurred and I have started to pick up some programming skills to make life a little bit easier by automating simple tasks such as ping sweeps or ARP address lookups.
I am very keen to further my programming skills and to automate more complex tasks over time.




Scripting

Working with Windows and Linux, there have been many occaisions where a simple, repetetive task was possible to be automated.


However, sometimes it is hard to identify tasks in the enterprise environment that can be automated or there are some barriers with access permissions or time constraints to get started on it. To still challange myself and progress my understanding of programmability I've been using www.practicepython.org and worked through various of the excercises.



Web development

More out of curiosity than professional need I have picked up a bit of web development in recent months. This website for example has been built based on this tutorial and then filled with life. From there I've expanded the site to include new functionality and added my personal content. Over time I hope to touch on many more areas of programming and techonology in general and showcase them here.
I think it is also noteworthy that this website is hosted on Azure Static WebApp resources and the code is managed via GitHub repositories, which reflects best practices and ensures familiarity with large enterprise deployment methods.



MS Azure and Terraform

Since 2023 I've been spending some of my time working with an internal DevOPs team managing our Azure infrastructure and have been introduced to a lot of new concepts. My main role within this team is to advise on and implement network related aspects of the infrastructure, but I have also had the chance to build environments using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, use GIT and Azure DevOPs for version management and adopt Agile project management methodologies.
This time being out "on loan" to the cloud team has been very educational and a lot of fun.