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If you're new to my channel, I'm Mischa van den Burg. I help ambitious professionals break into tech and scale their DevOps careers. Our community brings together over 400 paying members who are transforming their careers in tech.
How I got here...
28 yrs old: Left my nursing career to start from scratch in tech
29 yrs old: Taught myself DevOps while working full-time
30 yrs old: Landed my first junior DevOps position in just 6 months
31 yrs old: Doubled my salary by securing my first consulting role
32 yrs old: Built an advanced Kubernetes homelab, started sharing online
33 yrs old: Became a Microsoft MVP, grew to 34,000+ YouTube subscribers
34 yrs old: Built the fastest-growing DevOps community on Skool
Today: Running multiple 6-figure DevOps contracts while teaching others
Our community now has:
• 500+ paying members
• 40+ hours of premium courses
• Succesful career changers from related and unrelated fields.
• Members doubling their salaries in less than 6 months
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Check my GitHub (400+ stars).
Look up my Microsoft MVP status.
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To all the career changers and ambitious engineers: Your past doesn't determine your future. I went from nurse to highly-paid DevOps consultant in 18 months. The worse the struggle, the better the comeback.
You either level up your career or get an epic story trying. Both mean you win.
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Keep building,
Mischa
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