Adding Python to the Resume
Join me on my crash learning efforts with Python
I’ve been writing code professionally since around December 1999. In that time I have seen various languages as my career took me to different areas. It seems that Python was always there in the background, but never quite the “right” answer for the tasks I was working on. I was working on web development projects for the bulk of that time, and Python was just one of many contenders in that arena.
That has changed recently.
My work these days draws on my networking and server management experience during my web development days. My current tasks are lower level and retrieves data directly from hardware, instead of a database. To be a little more specific, my task is create and maintain the “firmware” system for our custom hardware. This “firmware” is really just the operating system that runs our custom software. So in short, I’m building a custom Debian distribution specifically to work on our hardware in diverse and rugged areas. The techs using those systems (hardware/software combo) span the range of skill levels from absolute noob (plug in the box and walk away), to full on kernel developers tweaking the system to get the most out of it for their use case.
Nowhere in that description is a web server or web application required. Instead…
