Quick review on my career after learning PowerShell

I have been an operator through our my IT career, clicking through the software install, user/ machine provisioning, and checking logs until I learned PowerShell. At first, I started scripting many of the repetitive tasks, and then some complex ones. They generated regular Active Directory/ file system/ Exchange reporting, scanned for cryptolocker affected files in file shares, and audited Exchange user attributes for the entire company.

Things got wild after having a bunch of PowerShell scripts laying around in my local folders. Now I look back, it seems the path evolved so naturally.

I needed a way to manage the PowerShell scripts and their history safely. So I started using Git. I wanted to work with others on my team and we had peer reviews. Spinning up VMs/ Cloud instances were then became bottlenecks in the workflow so configuration management and Infrastructure as code were embraced. Secret management, logging and monitoring, automated backup and recovery.... more and more were being elaborated into the text files (codes) I typed. Gradually, it was much  easier to describe how the technology design and business values relate to each other.

And now, I wonder, what breed of IT professional am I? It does not really matter. I love what I am doing now and will continue down the path. =)