I have worked in software for more than 20 years, moving between development, deployment, technical leadership and platform work. Whatever the role, I have usually stayed close to both the code and the way it reaches production. CI/CD, infrastructure and running software in production were never separate from development for me; they were simply part of the job. Today I mainly work on backend and platform systems. What interests me most about DevOps is the practical side: reliable delivery, understandable systems and keeping long-lived software safe to change.