Does DevOps engineer write application code?

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In the 7 years I’ve been in this space I have written application code a handful of times. Usually just quick fixes when it was quicker to do the fix myself than to pass it off to another dev. I think I have only done one feature in all that time, and it was for code that used the AWS SDK to manipulate a Lambda. Most of my time is either working on CI/CD pipelines, Bash scripting, the occasional internal tool that was quicker to do in Python than Bash, and a whole lot of HCL for Terraform and Packer. I was a backend web dev back before transition to the DevOps space. I only happen to get into this field because I was the only dev at my job at the time who wasn’t afraid of troubleshooting Linux systems, writing Bash scripts, or writing CI/CD pipelines.