In this conversation, Raminder Rathore, a senior DevOps specialist, shares her experience and perspectives on
- How her getting into IT was destined, based on her father’s foresight
- If you learn something, it is always good to share it with others [and teaching is a good option]
- Her first career transition from a teacher to a developer
- Taking on other roles such as a tester and business analyst
- Getting a break to be a consultant – a problem solver and liking it
- Becoming a tools consultant and discovering the importance of processes that go with the tools
- The significance of parents sharing their vision for their kids, with the children
- About the many options that kids of today have ahead of them
- Her exposure and experience with different locations / regions / countries
- Her personal philosophy of empathy and emphasis on listening
- The art of saying No
- The importance of training in personal development
- Certifications, sharing and learning, using case studies as an approach for learning
- The importance of communication – particularly when the teams are mostly remote and distributed
- Her concept of one team that she promotes, particularly with organizations on a DevOps adoption journey
- DevOps is more than automated CI/CD
- The answer to one questions that was waiting for fourteen years to be asked
- Her advice to people considering a career in IT as well as those who would like to switch to DevOps roles after some years of experience
Raminder Rathore is a DevOps practitioner; currently employed with HCL Technologies for 14 + years and in the IT industry for about 20 years.
She started her career as a trainer then progressed to become a developer and then gradually moved across different product lifecycle phases; first becoming a tools consultant and then graduated to become a DevOps practitioner.
She leads the DevOps COE at HCL that works with different customers across the globe on people, process and tools areas.
