Must Have!

• [ 90%] Become proficient in Kubernetes.
• [ 25%] Become proficient in PostgreSQL.
• [ 75%] Become proficient in Golang.
• [ 10%] Become proficient in C.
• [ 80%] Become proficient in PgBouncer.
• [ 30%] Become proficient in Stolon.
• [  5%] Become proficient in eBPF, and tracing.
• [ 50%] Become proficient in Hashicorp’s tools (Consul/Terraform/Vault/Vagrant/Nomad).
• [ 10%] A decent pet project in C/Go. The project factors in:
  • Networking
  • Systems programming
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Distributed systems
• [ 10%] Read 10 books.
• [ 20%] Finish MIT 6.004: Computation Structures.
• [ 20%] Finish Computer Architecture, by Carnegie Mellon.
• [ 20%] Finish CS436: Distributed Computer Systems, by University of Waterloo.
• [ 20%] Finish MIT 6.042J: Mathematics for Computer Science.
• [  0%] Create a usable release of the published dir2html.
• [  0%] Publish a debian package for dir2hml.
• [  5%] Become proficient in Ruby.
• [  5%] Learn Rust fundamentals.

Nice to Have

• [ 20%] Learn German A1 level.
• [  0%] Apply to become a “Debian Developer”.
• [  5%] Learn C++ fundamentals.
• [  0%] Start contributing to the linux kernel.
• [  0%] Learn Android app development fundamentals.
• [  0%] Learn Scala fundamentals.
• [  0%] Learn Node.js fundamentals.
• [  0%] Catch up with Javascript new releases.
• [  0%] Contribute to Python core.
• [  0%] Become a contributor to Mozilla.
• [  0%] Become an Apache commiter?
• [ 10%] Become a “Debian Maintainer”.
• [  5%] Write and publish 10 in depth technical articles/blog posts.