What It's Like to Work at Corporate Tools LLC

Describe the key factors or strategies that helped you land your dream job in the tech industry. 

In my opinion, there are two primary factors in any job being a “dream.” The first is to be able to hold an interest in the work involved with the job. I couldn’t say a job was a dream job if I couldn’t enjoy the work, even if an employer has all the best perks and people. I discovered programming was work that I truly enjoyed doing, which led me easily to the software engineer career path. 

The second, but just as equally important piece to making a dream job, is finding an employer with qualities that you prefer. After working for several companies, I figured out that I highly prefer working from home and a good work/life balance, as well as a good company culture where people are upfront, honest and easy to get along with.

What specific skills or experiences do you believe set you apart from other candidates during your job search?

I think my experience with the entire spectrum of application runtime is my strongest selling point. I’ve worked with many different cloud providers, infrastructures, CI/CD platforms, programming languages, frameworks and more, and I believe having this experience allows me to more easily adapt to new ones that a job could require.

How has your dream job lived up to your expectations? What are the types of projects you’re working on and what makes you most excited to come to work each day?

Honestly, I don’t think I could’ve picked a better career. It has its ups and downs, as all careers do, but I can’t see myself enjoying anything as much as I enjoy the work that I do now. I’ve got my fingers in a lot of pots currently, but my favorite project at the moment is the creation and management of our CI pipeline templates for projects. It’s a win-win scenario — I get to enjoy the process of building them out and improving developer’s testing and deployment processes, and the developers get to focus more on programming instead of what knobs to turn or levers to pull in order to compile the app and deploy it out correctly. This fulfilling work that I do, coupled with the trustworthy and friendly people that I work with, is what makes me excited to come to work each day!