From Chalkboard to Cloud: Day 0 of My DevOps Journey

In 2025, I began my professional career as an Assistant Professor after completing my Master’s in Computer Applications. Teaching was something I enjoyed, but it wasn’t my original plan.

Back in my MCA days, I had good development skills — I could code, I could build things — but there was a catch: my aptitude and DSA (Data Structures & Algorithms) skills weren’t strong enough to crack the college placements. While my peers went into the corporate world, I took the academic route.

Over the past months, I’ve realized something important:

I don’t just want to teach technology — I want to build, break, automate, and deploy it.

So today marks the start of my career switch to DevOps.

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Why DevOps?

DevOps excites me because it’s the perfect mix of:

• Automation

• Cloud technologies

• Continuous learning

• Problem-solving under real-world constraints

It’s a field that’s constantly evolving, and it aligns with how I love working — hands-on, results-driven, and always curious.

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How I’ll Document This Journey

From today, I’ll be posting daily updates:

• What I learned (skills, tools, concepts)

• Projects I built or worked on

• The challenges I faced

• How I balanced my teaching job with learning

• Reflections on my progress

It won’t just be a highlight reel — I’ll share the ups, downs, and messy middle. My goal isn’t to look perfect but to be consistent.

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The Balancing Act

Yes, I still have a full-time job as a teacher. That means:

• Early mornings and late nights will be my study time.

• Weekends will be for deeper project work.

• I’ll treat my DevOps journey like a second job — because eventually, I want it to be my only job.

It won’t be easy, but that’s the point.

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Why Am I Sharing This Publicly?

Because when you learn in public, two things happen:

1. You build accountability — no skipping days when the internet is watching 😅.

2. You create a knowledge trail — someone else might learn from your struggles.

If even one person reading this feels inspired to start their own journey, it’s worth it.

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📅 Day 0: Decision made. Roadmap ready. Motivation high.

Tomorrow, I take my first concrete step — setting up my learning environment and diving into Linux basics.

Here’s to new beginnings, persistence, and proving that it’s never too late to rewrite your career story.

– Aliasgar Jiwani
From Chalkboard to Cloud