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I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

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Re: I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

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raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #75
mptest wrote: post #72

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is there anyway you'd be willing to field a few questions from a soon to be cs grad interested deeply in this specific career path after realizing they'd been doing it in a way for free already. good experience, but unconventional experience who aspires to a position similar to yours?

Everyone I know who has done it, started out as a developer, moved up to a tech lead position and while doing so learned soft skills and presentations and gut real world experience with designing systems and then moved into consulting. It’s from my seeing the lay of the land in 2026 almost impossible to get a full time job in a consulting company starting out of a college with just an undergrad doing something techni…

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Re: I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

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raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #75
mptest wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is there anyway you'd be willing to field a few questions from a soon to be cs grad interested deeply in this specific career path after realizing they'd been doing it in a way for free already. good experience, but unconventional experience who aspires to a position similar to yours?

Everyone I know who has done it, started out as a developer, moved up to a tech lead position and while doing so learned soft skills and presentations and gut real world experience with designing systems and then moved into consulting. It’s from my seeing the lay of the land in 2026 almost impossible to get a full time job in a consulting company starting out of a college with just an undergrad doing something techni…

Luckily I am US based, but unfortunately looks like there's no way out of the developer grind for a few years.

I have presentation skills and plenty of soft skills but no experience building complex b2b systems. I've, for many a year, done a very basic version of my understanding of the role for non profits, business and individuals. designed technical solutions of all sorts but mostly just met their needs with existing software along with education.

I was hoping I could enter straight into customer facing roles but I suppose I was simply really holding out hope I could avoid what I've heard called, so lovingly, "the code mines". Any further suggestions would be greatly welcome.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond and offer this wisdom.

Re: I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

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Post by nunez »

fuzzythinker wrote: post #104
nunez wrote: post #103

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My pleasure! I forgot one more thing. Your technical aptitude carries less weight as an SE. Getting the technical win at a customer is what you're evaluated on. Since you're almost always working with engineers and technical stakeholders at the customers you're selling to, you need to be able to talk the talk to fit in, gain their trust and help them see the value of what you're selling. But those skillets alone won'…

Even more gems than the previous post! Btw, not sure if you're aware, your 2 resumes are linked to the same content

Thanks for catching that! That's on purpose.

I have two resumes: eng.resume.carlosnunez.me and consulting.resume.carlosnunez.me. The `consulting` resume highlights my strategic/sales side whereas the `eng` resume shows off my engineering work.

resume.carlosnunez.me symlinks to eng since that's what I want to highlight, but I'll share `consulting` if the role is interesting enough.

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