I was always interested in computers and coding so I read and learned a lot about them, as an addition, I have also studied various technical subjects during my masters such as “Introduction to Programming”, “Introduction to Java”, “Computer System Architecture”, “Design Patterns”, “Relational Databases and SQL” and “ASP.NET with C#”
I recently taught myself some Python in my free time to make sense of Pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib. Once I have even a crawler to download all the XKCD comics. I enjoy computer-related subjects in general. I read or watch, and try to have a general understanding of them whenever I see something interesting.
So, I am not a developer by any means, not even close. On the other hand, my technical knowledge allows me to read technical documents and API specs, make sense of a block of code and most importantly understand the system we use and have a better idea about the technical implications of a project’s requirements. Of course, this works the other way around also. When a DBA tells me such and such functionality is not feasible in the current context because it would require a full table scan, I can interpret this properly to the business stakeholders or better yet start thinking about possible solutions that wouldn’t upset the RDBMS with a table scan but also fulfil the business needs.
