https://rishabkumar.com/tags/career/ Recent content in Career on Rishab Kumar Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:23:52 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/early-mornings-building-a-tech-career-on-discipline/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:23:52 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/early-mornings-building-a-tech-career-on-discipline/ A few years ago(2018), I was working full-time in Tech Support. The job paid the bills, but it wasn’t what I wanted to do long term. I tried staying back after work to study AWS, but most days I was drained. After troubleshooting tickets for 8 hours, my brain was fried. So I made a small shift — I started coming in early. One hour before my shift started, I’d grab a coffee and study. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/are-cloud-certifications-worth-it/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:04:33 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/are-cloud-certifications-worth-it/ So the most valuable cloud engineers or developers in many established organizations don’t necessarily have loads of certifications. Instead, they bring extensive experience in IT infrastructure and have hands-on experience with the cloud and a habit of self-taught learning. I think there are two sides to cloud certifications and I want to cover both. Pros I’ll start with the pros, cloud certifications or certifications in general in IT, this has been a long-going debate and just like everything there are upsides and downsides. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-terraform-associate-certificate-after-failing-on-the-first-attempt/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:06:34 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-terraform-associate-certificate-after-failing-on-the-first-attempt/ My month of September at Glance: September was a great month as we all know about the #ServerlessSeptember event! Also, I was able to bag two certifications: AWS SysOps Administrator and Terraform Associate! You can check out my AWS SysOps Administrator exam experience below. https://blog.rishabkumar.com/how-i-got-aws-certified-sysops-administrator-in-2-weeks-ckevs4p6p01ytn1s1b94havwu Also, my article on “How I Built a Resume API with JavaScript and Azure Functions” was featured on #ServerlessSeptember! Terraform Associate Certification I am a huge fan of CloudFormation.