It’s been about half a year since I wrote my last post, and I wanted to reflect back on some of the goals I had set for myself.  In a nutshell, I wanted to 1) Grow HSV tech community, 2) learn some cloud technologies, 3) build something, and 4) read more theoretical books.

So halfway through the year, I feel like the HSV tech community has been growing, and HSV.py is still going strong.  I still have a surprise coming, so stay tuned.  But what has derailed most of my other goals is that in April, I started a new job: Software Engineer at Canonical!

I’m working on the CPC team which focuses on public and private cloud deployments.  I mostly do Python library work and Jenkins pipelines to transform Ubuntu images to their suitable cloud images.  It’s been great, because 1) I can work in Python and 2) I am getting to learn about a lot of cloud technologies along the way.

But, this is only my third ever job.  The first time I moved jobs, I had 3 years of experience; now I have 12.  I feel like there is a lot of advice out there for when you are new and swapping jobs, but not so much when you’re a senior engineer.  Here are some tips I’ve discovered in the three months of working there.

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