The lightbulb moment
Júlia Biró: I was born and raised in Hungary and trained as a mathematician. I wanted to see if I could take my favorite subject from school and turn it into a career. That turned out to be not such a smart idea. I was not cut out to do math as a career, and I found myself being more interested in the more practical problems. Because of that, in the end, someone suggested that I might want to learn programming, and this is how I gravitated towards the IT sector.
Once I was committed, I started training as a software engineer, and eventually, I was lucky enough to join a wonderful company called Prezi, where I was a very junior engineer placed on the infrastructure/DevOps team. It was as if a light bulb had switched on within me. I suddenly found myself knowing that this kind of engineering was what I wanted to do, and from that moment three and a half years ago, I would say I became a DevOps engineer.