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Helloo 2025! 🎉 This year, I’m taking a declarative approach to my career, because why not manage your goals like you manage your infrastructure? 😄

I like to visit my goals half way through the year 😉!

Here’s what my intentions for the year looks like:

goals:
  - certification: "One per year"
  - conferences:
      - in_person: 1
      - meetups: "a few"
  - speaking:
      - internal: true
      - external: true
team: "Kubernetes Platform"
joined: "6 weeks ago"
learning_style: ["KodeKloud", "books", "breaking things", "blogs"]

Let’s break it down together 😎

🎯 My 2025 Goals as a Software Engineer

This year, I want to push myself in three key areas:

  • ✅ One certification per year: I find certs help me stay focused and dive deeper. This year, I’m interested in CKA and AWS AI Practitioner 🔐
  • 🎟️ Attend at least one conference in-person, and a few meetups throughout the year. It’s a really good way to stay connected and inspired.
  • 🎤 Speak up! At my company internally and at a meetup or conference (in-person!). I would also love to share my knowledge and experiences so far 🥰

🧪 6 Weeks in the Kubernetes Platform Team

It’s already been about 6 weeks since I joined the Kubernetes Platform team, and it’s already stretched my thinking in new ways.

I have been diving into:

  • 🌐 Cluster management
  • 💸 FinOps considerations
  • 🤖 Autoscaling mysteries
  • 🧩 Designing for engineering experience

The shift has been exciting, and I’m learning heaps with awesome team members. I will be writing future blog posts on some of these topics 😁

🛠️ What Helped Me Learn Faster

📚 Learning Resources I Loved

  • 🎥 CKA Course on KodeKloud: hands-on labs, bite-sized lessons, and straight to the point.
  • 📘 The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton: clear, well-structured, and really easy to understand the different concepts.
    • I have already mentioned this book in a previous blog post 😄
  • 🧪 Just trying things out and breaking stuff: spinning up test clusters, updating manifests, and debugging real errors.
  • ✍️ Blogs by other awesome engineers: reading about how others approached various problems was super helpful. 💖 If you haven’t seen these blogs already, please see:

🌻 Still Scaling (Myself)

Working in platform engineering has reminded me how much there is to learn, and how valuable it is to build empathy for our engineers 💡 Whether it’s dealing with fun errors or helping teams ship faster, it’s all about solving interesting problems for our engineers.

Let’s keep learning (and scaling) together 🚀 kubectl apply -f 2025.yaml