REVISION 2026.1.18 - THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVSECOPS ARCHITECT
(C) 1994-2026 VETERAN DEVELOPER PRODUCTIONS
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START-UP OFFICE
This is a cramped room filled with CRT monitors and the smell of Jolt Cola. You are surrounded
by legends. Your 80s BBS heroes from ACiD PRODUCTIONS are here, hunched over keyboards.

A massive BUBBLE hangs over the room. It looks fragile.

> OPEN SOURCE SONGPRINT
SongPrint seems like the most revolutionary part of the codebase so sure, why not.

> WAIT
Time passes. The BUBBLE bursts with a POP! The company vanishes in a cloud of venture
capital. The SongPrint IP seems to have been picked up by a wizard named SHAZAM.

> GO GRADUATE
You receive MAJOR: Computer Science
You receive MAJOR: Cultural Anthropology
You receive LETTER OF MARQUE from "the Harvard of the South", granting audiences
with nobles and merchants.

> LOOK FOR SOFTDEV JOB
You find no SOFTDEV JOBS here. The post-BUBBLE market is a DESOLATE WASTELAND.

> GO TO MARKETING FIRM
You become a WEB DEVELOPER in the NEW MEDIA DEPARTMENT. It isn't the SOFTDEV you
imagined, but along the way you acquire skill: FAUX GRAPHIC DESIGNER.

> GO NORTH (TO THE GOVERNMENT)
You enter a LARGE GREY BUILDING. You remain WEB DEVELOPER. Progress is slow.

> BECOME CONTRACTOR
You leave the building and return as a mercenary. You feel slightly wealthier.

> CHANGE CONTRACTS
You are now a WEBDEV/UNIX SYSADMIN. You acquire: CISSP. Your INT rises.
There is a $3M CONTRACT here.

> BUILD WEB APP
In a single weekend, you craft an ELEGANT HACK. The $3M CONTRACT is destroyed. 

> CHANGE CONTRACTS
Your new patrons hired WEBDEV but need: C#, JAVA. You build DESKTOP APPS.

> GO TO SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER
You are now NETWORK SECURITY SME. You see many packets. Most are malicious.

> GO BACK TO WEBDEV
The government hires you as a mercenary again. After two years of watching money burn,
you begin to COMPLAIN loudly.
A HEAVILY ARMORED BUREAUCRAT hears you.  "FINE," she says. "DO IT BETTER."

> BUILD DEVSECOPS PLATFORM
You summon the CLOUDS (AWS, AZURE, NUTANIX) and invoke PIPELINES.
You automate the defenses. The Bureaucrat is stunned. 

> USE PYTHON
> USE RUBY
> GO ALL IN ON CI/CD
You are moving very fast now. You pass CERTIFICATION EXAMS without reading the tomes.

> AUTOMATE JOB
You automate your job. 
You automate it again. 
You automate it a third time. 
Whenever you finish automating a job you find a new one.
30 YEARS PASS

> EXAMINE GITHUB
A vast archive appears before you. It is covered in SHINING BADGES.

Score: 3,000/5,400 Class: DEVELOPER [Rank: MIDCAREER]	Inventory: DUAL MAJOR, DECADES EXPERIENCE
Programming Languages	Frontend Development
AI/ML / Big Data	Backend Development
DevOps	Mobile Development
Databases	Testing