Tips for transitioning to a career in DevOps

This section revolves around my DevOps journey. I will start laying the groundwork by telling the story, followed by tips that can be extracted from it.

Personal DevOps journey

In 2005, the decision to attend college for mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota was made. In college, I needed to take a C++ computer science class. This class was the extent of a software-related course that could be taken in college; however, the course got me inspired to continue exploring programming and what could be done with it. This fascination led to me purchasing a microcontroller board, similar to what is known as an Arduino. I ended up creating a hosted web page on a web server, which lead to a dorm room that could be monitored from a computer.

I took a lab that focused on automation and robotics in my senior year in college, which inspired my interest in automation. The professor for my course also spurred my interest in automation...