“My First” at IT World

I started my career at 2013 as software engineer. After 11 years, I want to reflect and throwback for every “my first” thing which I experienced at IT world. So here they are.

• My first programming language was Javascript which I’ve learned around 2009 before I enrolled at University.
• My first database which I’ve tried was MySQL at 2011. I used XAMPP at that time.
• My first webserver which I’ve tried was Apache Webserver at 2011. I used XAMPP at that time.
• My first backend programming language was PHP at 2011. I used XAMPP at that time.
• My first Linux distro was Ubuntu 10.04 which I’ve installed on my laptop at 2011
• My first BSD distro was FreeBSD 9 which I’ve tried at 2012
• My first enterprise web framework which I’ve worked on was CodeIgniter for PHP web application. It was around 2012
• My first career was part-time jobs for building online travel agent at 2012 which was built by HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery and CodeIgniter
• My first web application project which has real users was e-learning web application which was built by HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery and CodeIgniter around 2013
• My first mobile game was built with Java and J2ME around 2013
• My first professional career as software engineer was building online travel agent at 2013
• My first large scale ETL system was built on top of Amazon Web Services with Python and Apache Spark at 2017 when I worked with Malaysian company
• My first Django projects with thousand users and real market was developed at 2018 when I worked with Dutch company. At that time, I was building online mental heatlhcare system
• My first career shifting as cloud infrastructure engineer was started at 2019 when I worked with Dutch company
• My first professional certification was GCP Cloud Digital Leader which I achieved at 2022
• My first experience managing Kubernetes fleet for million users was started at 2023 for digital banking company. It’s real challenge for me
• My first Ansible module is https://github.com/ridwanbejo/sentryio.sentry
• My first published Terraform module is https://github.com/ridwanbejo/terraform-airflow-user
• My first Python SDK is https://github.com/ridwanbejo/plausible-py
• My first Security tool is https://github.com/ridwanbejo/kubus
• My first published Grafana Dashboards is https://github.com/ridwanbejo/grafana-dashboards
• And many more

That’s about “My First” at IT Industry. I’m trying to remember it as many as possible. But I think this is sufficient.

How about yours? share it on comment box below.