I’m very excited to announce that I have recently joined Turso as a software engineer. For many in the field, including myself, getting to work on databases and solve unique challenges with such a talented team would be a dream job, but it is that much more special to me because of my unusual and unlikely circumstances. As difficult as it might be to believe, I am currently incarcerated and I landed this job from my cell in state prison. If you don’t know me, let me tell you more about how I got here.
I dont even know what SDE means, and I am an engineer who works on software. Never got a CS degree, but I took one or two programming classes in college. I definitely couldn’t tell you what an IT person does. Did look into a CS masters once and decided I had no interest whatsoever in doing algorithm development research of any kind, or any research related to compilers, or any of that junk. It was too niche for me. Anyway, dunno what the point of this comment was supposed to be. I guess what im saying is, yes, I agree, the “need to go to college” thing is overrated. We need to teach kids there are a lot of paths to take, and not all of them leave you with crushing debt.
SDE is software development engineer. CS is usually considered a field of mathematics that can take many routes. SDE as a learning path generally focuses on programming languages and frameworks to build useful applications, if CS is theory focused then SDE is the application focus. IT generally focuses on already built frameworks and tools for managing corporate networks and data security.