Growing a Career in IT Through Trust, Curiosity & Community
summary
Career pivot from mid-30s with no degree into cloud by leading with curiosity, then using community activity—amplifying content, fixing doc typos, joining meetups—to collect signals that translate into product changes; three-week collaboration with the Lambda team fixes API pain points; builds an internal feedback pipeline called community telemetry and helps launch the public AWS Builder Center and wish list; outcome is earned influence over service roadmaps, international invites, and repeatable developer programs.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:01Trust, curiosity & community
- 3:19Scaling systems vs scaling yourself
- 8:33Trust doesn't scale overnight
- 13:15Community as a learning platform & telemetry
- 18:17Purpose, people, product
- 23:14Outro
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