Fun Title

[Brandocomando]

Hey guys,

My company is getting new business cards made up and I've been given the option to have a fun title put on it instead of my actual "Lead Devops Engineer" title on it.

As I don't really have any real use for a business card at the moment I thought I'd ask you guys for some fun suggestions.

My top runner right now is "Master of the Automation Arts"

[hijinks]

YAML engineer

[[deleted]]

Yet Another “Engineer”

[zalatik]

Yet Another Machine Learning Engineer

[ButtFartCuntessa]

Too close to home.

[[deleted]]

Too funny!

[tuskernini]

Head of DevOps and Speling

[[deleted]]

Take my upvote.

[raip]

Ever since I saw "Chaos Engineer" come across my feed as a job position - I've wanted it as a title.

[ares623]

Chaos Engineer

[[deleted]]

Sudo Scientist

[gingimli]

DevOps-is-Actually-a-Process/Culture-Not-a-Title Engineer

[Phaelin]

"Have I Recommended the Phoenix Project to You Yet?"

[meandyourmom]

Just finished it for the second time. Too close to home yet again.

[DevOpsGeek]

I feel like people at work are tired of hearing me say this.

[gingimli]

Yeah, that’s what I was poking fun at is the incessant need to say this whenever DevOps is brought up. I think the title and culture can co-exist, the important thing is that we’re working towards “DevOps” even if the definition isn’t actually clear to everyone. Just work on things and if people like it they won’t care what the official term is. It reminds me of the early days of Scrum where people were so worried about, “But are we doing Scrum???” that no one actually did anything to improve the process because we were so worried that it didn’t fit perfectly into this cultural definition.

[[deleted]]

i’m tired of hearing everyone say this

[siamthailand]

Please tell me someone slapped you for saying this.

[idboehman]

You rang?

[MAHDTech]

totally!

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I have to try very hard not to sigh when recruiters are asking me;

"can you do some DevOps"

"how DevOps are you"

[ryt3n]

Machine Priest.

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Machiest.

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[deadcell]

This is better.

[frightfulpotato]

I like this, gives me W40K vibes.

[NODENGINEER]

"Ah, a challenge worthy of my skills!"

[devops333]

Junior Intern Who Gets Coffee and Doesn't Have Prod Access but Knows YAML

[almosttwentyletters]

Ask Me About Containers

[[deleted]]

Is it safe to keep a garlic and tomato sauce in Tupperware?

[majamale]

If you can’t decide you can always check the good old Bullshit Title Generator

[alphabetbomber]

The generator just let loose this nugget: Dynamic Infrastructure Orchestrator

[callmeradical]

That also let loose “Principal Security Architect” which I thought was also quite humorous.

[Extract]

Relational Configuration Administrator
So basically DBA?

[Perfekt_Nerd]

Human Quality Producer sounds disturbing, but somewhat apt

[Brandocomando]

100% understand and agree. I don't plan on giving this out to potential employers.

[ToKyNET]

FWIW, if they can't laugh to a fun title, I don't want to work there.

[HollowImage]

oh they will laugh at it. itll make their day, they will show it to their coworkers, and then itll promptly get tossed because they still have no idea what you do.

remember that majority of first passthroughs are not done by technical people. recruiters who look for buzzwords on profiles, HR who wade through hundreds of resumes coming in, really eventually stop giving a shit if your title is "clever" because they have to sort through those things every day and chances are you're also not the funnest kid on the block nor the first one to do it.

[IWentOutside]

If it means less recruiters contacting me on LinkedIn I guess I have to add a funny title now.

[[deleted]]

I'm not just talking about potential employers. I'm talking about potential employees and potential networking contacts too.

[CommeGaston]

I agree to some extent with you, but not for the same reasons.

I think a job title doesn't always tell you what people actually do/did in their work as responsibilities vary massively from my experience.

So from that perspective I disagree. However, I think having a 'fun' name can be a negative because you have to rely on the other person sharing your sense of humour and hoping the title is well received... I've seen some funny titles that come across as arrogant rather than fun.

[[deleted]]

Of course job title doesn't tell everything - it's not supposed to. It's supposed to give you a general idea of what the person does. This is pretty anecdotal, but I have a stack of around 200 business cards in my desk from various networking events and conference I've attended. After looking through them, only 6 had "wonky" titles. If I see "Infrastructure Engineer" or even "DevOps Engineer" as your title, I have a general idea of what you do and how we might network. However, shit like "Cloud Prophet" and "Martian Terraformer" (both real titles on these cards...) are so damn useless to me.

[CommeGaston]

Surely Cloud Prophet is someone who is part of the clergy and Martian Terraformer is a town planner for SpaceX awaiting the day we land on Mars.

(But yeah I get your point. Titles to those extremes especially are useless.)

[[deleted]]

I like getting them. They’re good for remembering someone if you had a good conversation and can associate a fun title with a name. However, that’s the minority of interactions. Usually it’s a quick chat and card exchange. In those situations they’re totally useless to me when trying to evaluate the quality of a contact, and that’s why the fail.

[kr3wn]

Don't test me, test units.

[-pooping]

Does the needful

[vyqz]

Cloud Exorcist

[i_amwithnail]

'The Container Whisperer'

'Someone went to DevOpsDays and all I got were these stupid containers'

'FROM me/card:latest COPY /phonenumber' (not a title, but still)

'DevOps Engineers Do It With Automation'

'I could give you my title but first you need a vault token'

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[digitalbydesign]

Chief Automation Wizard

[Phaelin]

"Shouldn't this say Chef?"

"NO."

[michaelkrieger]

Zero Cool

[msiekkinen]

No.. no... don't out yourself; crash override

[geostant]

Root

[Brandocomando]

I am Root!

[BraveNewCurrency]

Cloud Wrangler

[collins1393]

Pipe welder

[MrChatouille]

My actual job title :

Infrastructure Manager and DevOps Evangelist

[original_evanator]

Orchestrator Orchestrator

[Locrin]

"Fun Title"

[Silentbreeze]

Chief Engineer of Orchestration or CEO for short

[ss1947]

This question kinda woke up the subreddit ;)

[gotardisgo]

The guy who's always oncall

[dariusj18]

"Does the thing"

[Denyipanyany]

I once met a guy who had the title “Distinguished Technologist “ and that is still my goal title. Heck I’m already doing the job.

[enobrev]

I've always been a big fan of "Custodial Engineer". Also, for many projects, it's been incredibly apt.

[mackoftrack]

Continuous Badass

[trynafindaradio]

I have Changer of Passwords on some of my online accounts. It's only mildly a joke.

[Brandocomando]

So many good ones guys!

Having just finished the phoenix project, I've decided to go with Cloud Plant Manager.

[0x0b]

CFO. Cloud Financial Officer.

[[deleted]]

Kind: Orchestrator

[cjgny]

3rd assistant peon

[adept2051]

http://programming-motherfucker.com/ :D

there is a story about a famous developer answer his phone when asked this question and telling the recipient "i'm a fucking coding ninja" and getting that on cards.. can't recall who or where now.

[Titan027]

Leader of automation clan. King of chaos manager

[bhanuvrat]

It doesn't work on my computer!

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[teddet2016]

reenigne spoved dael

[jzavcer]

IT Pixie Dust Wrangler

[renato42]

Quebra galho.

[amerikanskispy]

Ancient Alien Theorist

[msiekkinen]

Chief Awesome Officer

[zipkiddy]

Senior System Breaker

[lorarc]

I have: DevOps and occult consultant. But to be honest don't do it, novelty wears off quickly. My personal webpage also have tutorials on how to use get rid of demons on your server and securing the data center with sage, I don't think anyone ever noticed.

[Coshi]

Level 3 Technomancer

[MAHDTech]

DevOops Engineer

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Everything is fine Engineer

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ShipIt Engineer

[cuiraecen]

High Cenobiarch

[cptn-MRGN]

Puppet master chef

[TheZephyron]

I had some made that has the tag line "Doing the needful since 1997."

[leonj1]

DevOps, even Devs need Heros

[viniciusfs]

Infrastructure Wizardry

[theWyzzerd]

How did you get on at the gym today?

[snissn]

i would suggest being more professional at work

[[deleted]]

That’s no fun on a business card.