Accomplishments != Identity
Senior Application Developer and Full Stack Engineer at Thoughtworks with almost a decade of experience working primarily as a Backend & DevOps Engineer. I've worked on Ruby & C# projects and am currently working on a Python one. I am an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an Oracle Certified Cloud Infrastructure Architect at an Associate level. I also have reasonable experience working on GCP, primarily with Google Kubernetes Engine.
I'm also an aspiring public speaker who likes to give talks on soft skills and tech.
I also write blogs on various psychological aspects of work primarily to improve teamwork & interpersonal skills.
Throughout my childhood, I did rather well in academics (I sucked in sports though). I performed consistently well across primary school, high school, college and my first job. So much so that it became part of my identity. I was the guy who did well among peers.
When I joined Thoughtworks, I was among peers who were in a different class than me in every possible way (and were very humble about it). And my sense of identity came crashing down on me. I didn't know who I was anymore and it took me 8 months to learn who I was again.
If you are someone like me, let my story serve as a warning. Don't let your accomplishments define your identity and don't let your failures destroy it. Instead learn from them both and make your own happiness.
