TAP In With Tako: Military Transitions

Ep 28: From Help Desk to Site Reliability Engineer


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Today I bring on Alex who served in the Air Force and now is a Site Reliability Engineering Senior Manager. Alex found an entry-level role after the military and has gained a ton of knowledge in his journey to a Senior manager.


In today’s episode, we talk about a bunch of different things:

  • What is SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)?
  • Healthy ways to address imposter syndrome
  • Great entry-level roles after the military
  • How to find ideal roles in your career
  • Ways to find mentorship
  • Should you pick working a FAANG vs other companies?
  • Why you should always be interviewing


Technologies Alex mentioned:

Free BSD, PERL, MySQL, Apache, PHP, AWS

Check out Alex's woodworking art at mapsandboxes.com



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TAP In With Tako: Military TransitionsBy Takato Watanabe

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