The first step

A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step – Lao Tzu

Hello, Everyone! My name is Kenneth Huddleston, a part time Computer Science student and a full time Site Reliability Engineer working in the software industry. I am beginning my first post of my capstone project with a Lao Tzu quote, because I believe I am very blessed to be at the start of what is probably the hardest, but most rewarding year in my career so far.

I have been working in software as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a little over 2 years now. In light of me recent work, my company has slotted my for a leadership training curriculum which I will be completing in tandem with my work in this capstone. Between work, my leadership training, and this course – I have found myself without lacking inspiration and challenge. As I have been completing the prep work for the year ahead, I have come to personally identify with Lao Tzu’s quote ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step’. Whenever I am daunted by the amount of work in front of me, I try to remember.. it’s just one step at a time!

For my capstone sequence, I am currently recruiting members for a project that will stretch my technical skills beyond what I have experience in my career so far. My project is a full-stack application meant to track a users Investment holdings; providing the user performance metrics, forecasting reports, news, etc. One example of an application like this currently available on the public web is Stock Events: https://stockevents.app/en .

I am recruiting for my team on EdStem. If you are interested, please check it out! The link to my recruitment post is here: https://edstem.org/us/courses/67384/discussion/5369144?answer=12450700 .

Looking forward to an amazing year!