Hi! I'm Trina Yau

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Currently, I work as a Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco Systems UK in Hybrid Cloud Operations. I also previously worked as a Salesforce Developer in the automotive industry. I am a qualified Pharmacist and worked for 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry as a Project Manager, managing the development of generic and veterinary medicines in EMEA.

I live in NW London, and my favourite thing to do on the weekends is to take my puppy for long walks in the park with my friends. I enjoy reading novels, especially webnovels.

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Why?

I first stumbled into coding while working on a cool digital transformation project for a pharmaceutical company.
I got to work closely with a team of awesome web developers and I was in awe of the magic they could create with just a few lines of code.
I was so surprised when they said that I could learn to build a website too! I started dedicating evenings and weekends to SheCodes, freeCodeCamp and Codecademy, studying HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. I love the way coding makes my brain think and the satisfaction of being able to bring my own ideas to life.
It's like playing with legos for adults, but way cooler.

How?

While I started off self-learning, I hit a wall pretty quickly. What technology should I use? How should I structure my files? What are pull requests even for? There wasn't anyone who I could work with on projects.

I went on to train at a coding bootcamp in London, learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React and Redux as well as SQL and NoSQL, Python (Flask and Django), Node.js and Express. I finally got to work with awesome devs, using Trello and Jira to work agile and collaborate on full-stack web projects. It was a fantastic experience and made me determined to build more full stack projects.

After completing the bootcamp, I contracted at Ford Motor Company as a Salesforce Software Engineer. My responsibilities included developing UI using Lightning Web Components and Apex.

Now.

I am now working at Cisco UKI as a Site Reliability Engineer in Hybrid Cloud Operations. I am responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response of the Cisco Managed Hybrid Cloud Services Platform. I am also working on automating the deployment of the Managed OpenStack project using Terraform and Ansible.

I'm also constantly working on levelling up my skills, and I am learning Next.js, TypeScript and UI/UX design.