The truth about careers in tech is that most roles follow the same cookie-cutter patterns. If you don’t fit the mould, or want to forge your own path then things get significantly more difficult. I found this out the hard way. You end up feeling lost a lot. The good news is there are ways to hack the entrenched systems. This blog shares my stories hacking things to work for me. I hope it provides a roadmap for crafting a tech career with the life you really want. Because we all owe it to ourselves to work in a way that is fulfilling to us.
Biography:
Tracy Miranda is making open source secure by default at Chainguard. Previously Tracy helped launch and was executive director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) home of Jenkins, Spinnaker and Tekton. Prior to CDF, Tracy was the Director of Open Source at CloudBees. Tracy is a veteran of the open source technology industry with nearly twenty years of experience scaling large projects such as Jenkins and Eclipse. Tracy’s background also includes developer tools, embedded software and electronics system design. Tracy has two patents for her work on processor architectures.
Hacking A Career In Tech 