I, uh, went to school originally for marketing and advertising, and I kind of had a production multimedia background, and, um, but that I've always been technical and, um, and, you know, involved in marketing. In some sense, I was actually a software product manager for about 10 years. Um, leading up to my time in boot camps and coming over toe being a software engineer. Um, there. I worked closely with software teams. So, uh, you know, wanted something that was more portable and and mawr, I guess it's technical is I was what wanted to actually affect the change and not just manage it and, uh, and guide it from a product and marketing perspective. So, yeah, that's what brought me into my current current career is a software engineer.

software engineer with JPMorgan Chase. Um, as faras decisions, um, handling, um, you know, I'd say, you know, this being an entry level job and being my my first, uh, software engineer, hands on role. Um, you know, there's not a lot of decisions that come with that right off the bat. But, you know, e think Ah, good example. Is, uh, you know something that new software engineers get handed is testing. Um, and no one's there to tell you how to with testing, you can't really break the software or caused too much trouble by doing the wrong thing. But, you know, they the decisions air on you, thio, um, to execute how how the testing, how things should be tested. Perhaps, you know, so you do have some control within your own box, and and there is a lot of autonomy. So I'd say that, you know, there's a fair amount of decision making in that, like how you manage your day. Ecevit's not being micromanaged is really nice about being, ah, entry level software engineer. Uh, top three priorities. Um, you know, constant progress. Which standups helped help with accountability. Just the daily, you know, 10 minutes to kick off the day. Um help. Help! Help Enforce that. Um, I think quality is a really, um, a top priority constantly. You know, as a new engineer, there's so much to learn about the way things air not just done technically in my own name, but tech. But how they're done as a J p m c. You know, in in that beyond the stack, it's kind of an operational focus, you know? So so quality is uh huh, my point being there's there's so much to focus on that sometimes things get lost, you know? So I think you really have to focus on that quality. And it's come back to bite me a couple of times, but it's turned into some really good lessons. Azam starting off, um, jump over the pain points. Um you know, uh, a t A in a organization is largest JPMorgan chase. Um, the things move pretty slow. Sometimes there's some red tape. And you know, I've worked on some very light, agile teams in the past, um, and been in some entrepreneurial roles myself. So it's tough Thio be waiting on so many other people and and when a ship. Ah, ship has to turn. It turns very slowly. So you know Yeah, its's, that's that's really the toughest part. And then I think, just the kind of pageantry that comes along with corporate environment. Uh, it's not so much on getting it done and building cool stuff. It's a lot about playing a part. And, um, I'd say almost 30 40% about being part of the organization instead of delivering value for the organization, which is on unfortunate compromise. But, uh, it comes with a lot of pluses, too.

um, we're using in Tell a J. Um, the, uh, intelligent as an I d, um, were testing in cucumber and karate. Um, you know, Kafka is a big part of as a cock. A framework is a big part of, um, uh, daily life. There is a lot of micro service architectures, and those abs need all need to talk to each other. Um, Cassandra's are no sequel database. Um, which wasn't hard to learn or to pivot from everything I learned. Um, yeah, I'd say I Micro services, uh, seems to be where things were going. So, learning things, that kind of support support that and help them all talk to each other, I think is a safe bet for anyone. We're moving from an internal cloud thio at Amazon s three in a lot of areas. So, you know, getting spun up on Amazon and understanding that is ah, I think is a riel strong value proposition for anybody. Um, that anyone should focus on Yeah, those That's those. The main ones. Day in, day out