7 Jobs 1 Year: Using Go in Different Workplaces
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Seven jobs in one year using Go across startups, government, contracting and big tech, with pay roughly quadrupled over the year. Work includes a Go microservice for Shibboleth SAML authentication built to serve other apps, Docker and Kubernetes experimentation, a contract at ~100‑engineer startup with strict CI and conventional commits and nitpicky PRs, a 20‑hour/week incubator role that rewrote a product in Go and shipped many features, an open‑source IaaS role with minimal guidance, and one canceled short contract.
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