2023 Goals / Resolutions (Subject to Change - As All Goals Should Be)
Career
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AWS Certifications: At least three of these.
- Solutions Architect Professional (This is the one I’m working on now)
- DevOps Engineer Professional
- Security Specialty (I understand this one is similar material as Solutions Architect Pro)
- Data-related specialties:
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Focus on technologies to move me from an analytical role into a Data Engineering role.
- Learn more about Spark and Hadoop. Using AWS EMR.
- Continue to improve Python skills.
- Continue to prepare for CompTIA Linux +
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Build Portfolio Style projects to demonstrate skills with Data Pipelines, AWS, and Python.
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Become competent with one or more visualizaiton tools.
- Tableau
- AWS
- Or any others.
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Continue to dedicate an average of five hours weekly for career development study and practice.
Personal
- I will increase my reading goal for 2023. I plan to read at least 18 books. Six of these will be non-fiction.
- Learn more about Hugo - Become better at using it.
- Understand how Hugo Works - Build my own templates and Theme
- Migrate to AWS (This will be one of the AWS Projects mentioned above)
- Migrate the GitLab repository I use now to AWS Code Commit
- Setup AWS Code Deploy to deploy changes to the site on commit automatically