Merge pull request #25 from ettoreciarcia/develop

feat: add carrer history and events

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+| Date          | Event Name                                          | Location    | Status     |
+|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-------------|------------|
+| June 2024     | KCD italy                                           | Bologna     | Attendee 🦻 |
+| April 2024    | Un confronto tra il passato e il futuro dell'IaC    | Naples      | Attendee 🦻 |
+| March 2024    | Kubecon                                             | Paris       | Attendee 🦻 |
+| March 2024    | Incontro DevOps Italia                              | Bologna     | Attendee 🦻 |
+| October 2023  | Linux Day                                           | Benevento   | Speaker 🎤  |
+| October 2023  | DevSecOps Day                                       | Bologna     | Attendee 🦻 |
+| October 2023  | Container Day                                       | Bologna     | Attendee 🦻 |
+| June 2023     | KCD Italy                                           | Milan       | Attendee 🦻 |
+| March 2023    | AWS Webinar                                         | Naples      | Speaker 🎤  |
+| November 2022 | MeetUp Golang                                       | Naples      | Attendee 🦻 |
+| October 2022  | Linux Day Benevento                                 | Benevento   | Speaker 🎤  |
+| September 2022| MeetUp Kubernetes                                   | Naples      | Attendee 🦻 |
+| June 2022     | AWS Summit                                          | Milano      | Attendee 🦻 |
+| January 2022  | CyberHackademy Graduation                           | Naples      | Speaker 🎤  |

content/history-of-my-career.md

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+# History of my careeer
+
+<!-- Hello, it's me. Ettore!
+
+![me](/me-resized.jpg) -->
+
+## The Very Beginning
+
+Like many others in this field, I started tinkering with computers from a young age. Initially, it was just for playing games, but around the age of 15, I began to wonder what was behind the scenes and how things worked under the hood.
+
+My first "creation" was a website on Altervista. It was terrible. A simple page made with HTML and CSS, which displayed a playlist whenever it was viewed. But I had a domain like stupidfifteenyearoldname.altervista.org, and I felt like a Sensei.
+
+Then came the first computer science lessons at school. Truth be told, I had chosen a school where computer science wasn't the main focus, but luckily, I had a passionate computer science teacher. During the first two years of high school, we finished the math curriculum a few weeks early, so the teacher gave us basic programming lessons in Pascal. I still remember the IDE's logo we used, Lazarus. In those weeks, we created simple programs (calculator and power calculations). And this is my experience with computer science at school.
+
+## Bachelor's Degree [Skill up]
+
+When it was time to choose which university to attend, I chose Computer Engineering at Federico II in Naples. After a rocky start, I began to enjoy the journey: programming, networks, computer architecture, and a lot of math and physics. During my fourth year (I should have finished the degree the previous year, darn it), I received a job offer from a nearby company that seemed to be involved in IT.
+
+## There's a new SysAdmin in town! [Job experience] 
+
+This is where my professional life chapter begins. I was still finishing my studies and wanted to do it part-time. That "system administrator" position seemed perfect to start and balance both. I was young and naive, knowing nothing about the working world. 
+Long story short: that job quickly turned into a full-time one.
+Without going into details, within a few months, that job had nothing left to teach me. But I was hungry.
+
+![sysadmin](/sysadmin.jpg)
+
+So, I ordered parts for my first homelab PC, spending what was basically my entire salary back then. 
+When I wasn't at work, I played with my homelab: assembling, disassembling, and experimenting with open-source products. Once satisfied, I wiped everything and tried some other configuration. 
+After a couple of months of this, continuing to work at my first job made no sense anymore. I submitted my resignation.
+The boss then decided to drastically reduce my working hours while keeping the same pay, just to make me stay. I accepted.
+
+{{% callout note %}}
+My first mistake as a young professional: never accept a counteroffer. Lesson learned.
+{{% /callout %}}
+
+So, I kept working there, with nothing more to learn. But I had much more time to dedicate to my homelab, so my skills grew elsewhere.
+
+I continued like this for a few months until July of that year when I created my first Amazon Web Services account and started playing with EC2 instances.
+I immediately realized that all the computational capacity issues I had in my homelab could be solved with a couple of clicks on AWS (yes, I'm talking about clicks, the me of that time didn't know anything about Infrastructure as Code yet).
+
+I tinkered with AWS until September, and in that month, I was ready to resign again. But surprise!
+My company decided to open a branch entirely dedicated to the Cloud, and I had the opportunity to study it from within. I was given a certification goal to achieve (AWS Cloud Practitioner and Azure Fundamentals). I obtained both in less than a month and started working on small Cloud projects.
+For months, I continued with my sysadmin job, my homelab, and doing small projects in this Cloud branch of the company.
+
+In December, I left my sysadmin job to focus solely on the Cloud part.
+
+Long story short: the Cloud branch of my company quickly turned into an environmet with very low salaries and no regular contracts for the people working alongside me. Even today, I am amazed that such a place is not monitored by the relevant authorities
+
+
+At that point, I resigned, this time without accepting the counteroffer.
+
+{{% callout note %}}
+My second mistake: companies are made up of people. If the same people whose values you don't share in company A, you probably won't share them in company B either. Lesson learned
+{{% /callout %}}
+
+My world collapsed. I was very disappointed with that job. So, I started doing interviews to find a new one.
+
+Until that moment, I hadn't had any other job interviews, and starting to have them opened up a whole new world for me. If I had done it earlier, that tragic work experience would have only lasted a few months.
+
+I had 5 interviews in the month of February, receiving four offers. But did I really want to get back into work? Up until that point, I had been operating on autopilot. Finally, after 2 years, I saw regular employment contracts and my pay tripled
+
+{{% callout note %}}
+My third mistake: not knowing one's target market. Lesson learned
+{{% /callout %}}
+
+I had just come from a devastating work experience and as tempting as those contracts seemed, I rejected them all.
+I didn't want to go back to work, I had some studies to finish
+
+In the following months, I dedicated my time to university studies, trying to complete my bachelor's degree. I was five exams away from finishing; I passed 3 of them in 4 months.
+Wow, I can still do it. I can still study!
+
+## [Cyber Hackademy](https://cyberhackademy.unina.it/) [Skill up]
+
+Meanwhile, the opportunity to attend a cybersecurity academy organized by my university arose. For the top five performers, there was a scholarship up for grabs. Even though I was only studying at that time, I decided to give it a shot.
+The selection process was divided into three phases: evaluation of qualifications, written exam, and oral exam.
+
+I passed the tests and got in.
+
+The months at Cyber Hackademy were fantastic. Even though some lessons were designed for entry-level participants, I enjoyed it a lot.
+That experience lasted for 9 months, from May 2021 to January 2022. The last 3 months were dedicated to a project carried out by different teams.
+I was in one of those teams, TEAM DRAGONS.
+Our project was an [AWS-based honeynet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDVL2ZiZcyg), set up with Terraform and equipped with logging and monitoring tools to gather information about attackers.
+
+And here we are on stage that day, presenting our project. 
+
+![Cyber Hack](/cyberhack.png)
+
+
+## [Epsilon](https://www.epsilonline.com/): game changer [Job experience]
+
+During the months of Cyber Hackademy, just before it ended, I started interviewing again. Again, I had bad feelings during the interviews. I passed all of them, but after the first company, I think I developed a radar for toxic workplaces. And that radar went off every time during the interviews BEEP BEEP BEEP.
+
+Until Epsilon came along.
+
+There, I had a great conversation about computer science with the CTO.
+
+The radar didn't sound, and I started working with them. My time at Epsilon was fantastic.
+
+Great colleagues, very high technical density, engineering depth. What a wonderful place. At Epsilon, I didn't feel like I had a boss, just people who were technically more knowledgeable than me.
+
+For over a year, I commuted to Epsilon twice a week (their office was just over an hour from where I lived). When I went there, I stayed in a hotel paid for by Epsilon and had delicious poke bowls whenever I stayed in Naples. You can't imagine how good it was.
+
+![Poke](/poke.png)
+
+This is where I started using Cloud professionally and had my first real encounter with Kubernetes, a technology I would specialize in later.
+
+I can say that the few foundations I have today were built at Epsilon.
+
+"Many say that computer science moves fast, but it's false. Computer science has been the same for thirty years; it's the technologies that move fast."
+
+But even more importantly, Epsilon restored my confidence in the working world. It made me realize that good places exist :heart:
+
+## [DevDreams](https://devdreams.it/) [Skill up]
+
+
+"DevDreams" is a growth path for developers to achieve their goals.
+
+It's an initiative born from [Alfonso Graziano](https://it.linkedin.com/in/alfonso-graziano) and [Alex Prezioso](https://it.linkedin.com/in/alex-prezioso), which I discovered thanks to LinkedIn, managing to join right after its launch.
+
+The concept was as simple as it was ingenious: they had found senior profiles willing to help more junior profiles for free.
+All you needed to do was apply, and after an initial selection, a Mentor who aligned with your career growth was assigned to the Mentee.
+
+And that's where I got lucky.
+
+They paired me with [Gaspare Vitta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gasparevitta/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) as my mentor, an engineer specializing in Developer Experience at [Qarik Group](https://qarik.com/), a company based in New York, while working remotely from Italy.
+
+And so, I started having weekly appointments with Gaspare, during which we set a goal for the following week and defined what needed improvement in my ongoing work.
+
+It was a highly formative period, the resources and links Gaspare shared with me were like gold. He opened up a world, showing me things I had never seen before, and I realized that what I thought I knew needed deeper exploration.
+
+The meetings I had with Gaspare laid the foundation for what came next.
+
+## [SIGHUP](https://sighup.io/): Kubernetes time [Job experience]
+
+During my journey at Epsilon, I was asked to delve into studying a Kubernetes Cluster in an on-premise environment. Until then, I had only seen Kubernetes in its managed AWS version.
+One thing was clear: going into production with a "bare" Kubernetes cluster was unthinkable.
+A cluster would need logging, monitoring, access management.
+Moreover, I had to translate AWS services (ECS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, etc.) into something usable outside a cloud provider.
+At that moment, I understood that Kubernetes' true strength lay in its extensibility.
+I liked Kubernetes before, but from that moment on, I fell in love with it.
+
+And as I consumed online resources to understand what people were running in their production clusters, I came across the k8s Fury distribution by SIGHUP.
+At that moment, I thought about how fun it would be to work at a company that had made Kubernetes its core business, but I left it at that.
+
+Several months later, I attended a Meetup, where the speakers were from SIGHUP.
+
+Then a position opened up in that company.
+
+And then...
+
+![SIGHUP](/joinSIGHUP.png)
+
+And now, I find myself here, working in the fantastic Team 2 of the Cloud Native Solution Engineer (CNSE). I only see my colleagues at company events; the work is fully remote.
+I'm growing a lot, learning many new things, and others I thought I knew.
+
+And it's through SIGHUP that I had the opportunity to participate in the [Kubernetes Community Day Italy](https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-italy-presents-kubernetes-community-days-italy-2023/) for the first time!
+
+![KCD](/KCD.png)
+
+## Current state
+
+Currently, I work at SIGHUP remotely from my beautiful home office (perhaps in the future, I will dedicate a page to my home office setup).
+
+![workstation](/workstation.png)
+
+The technologies I work with the most are Kubernetes, AWS services related to Kubernetes (VPC, EC2, S3, EKS), Ansible, Terraform and Kong Gateway.
+
+When I'm not engaged in IT-related activities, I'm probably watching some anime with my super nerdy girlfriend.
+And if we're not doing that, we're probably at a comic book convention.
+This is her pretending to explain to me what a triptych is at an art exhibition.
+
+![mostra](/mostra.png)
+
+The photo is blurry because my girlfriend is elusive.
+
+If you're wondering, a triptych is a single pictorial or sculptural work divided into three parts, which can be joined by side hinges or a pedestal known as a predella. The triptych can be completed by an upper part called a cimasa.
+
+What else can I say? Oh, I also enjoy walking.
+
+And when I say walking, I mean for hours. This is the view from one of my evening strolls.
+
+I absolutely love this.
+
+![view](/view2.png)