Career Without a Script: The Journey from SysAdmin to Team/Tech Lead SRE Engineer [ukr]

✍️ Talk Description:

Every engineer has their own path in IT. Mine didn’t start with polished presentations or clear plans — it began with me being lifted by a crane to fix a screen at Metalist Stadium. Then came telecom projects, autotests, Red Hat, OpenStack, OpenShift — and a constant search for where to move next.

Over time, the rough scripts I wrote just to save myself a few hours started holding production systems together. “Fires” became opportunities for new solutions, and experiments turned into experience that truly worked. And somewhere along the way, there were moments when I wanted to leave IT. But instead, DevOps01 appeared — then a community, and eventually AWS and HashiCorp ambassadorships.

In this talk, I’ll share how the constant search for myself in the profession — and for the profession within myself — became the driving force that changed not only my career but also my life. How small initiatives grow into large systems, and how community opens new doors.

📌 Key Points (bullet points):

• My journey from system administrator to SRE tech lead
• Why searching for yourself in the profession isn’t a crisis but a growth opportunity
• What changed when I started building systems for business, not just closing tasks
• DevOps01: how a volunteer initiative grew into an educational platform
• AWS Community Builder and HashiCorp Ambassador: how community opens doors
• My approach to learning and work — through practice, experiments, and failures