A bad coder turned industry analyst
Chris Riley: My answer can best be summed up by the fact that I'm a bad coder turned industry analyst. While I couldn't make it as a coder, I had a big passion for software development practices, building applications, and the processes around that. So, instead of trying to transform my skill set and become a better coder, what I decided to do was really focus on understanding the industry. So, I became a DevOps analyst in addition to being the editor of Sweetcode.
Career-wise, my last employer was a company called CloudShare, which was a DevTest environment specifically for large line-of-business application development; in other words, a SharePoint-, SAP-, or Oracle-type application. At CloudShare, I worked in product management, so I was essentially driving the direction of the product and keeping tabs on the market.
I'm also doing a lot of write-ups for DevOps.com, O'Reilly, and TechTarget. My content focuses on...