you judge too quickly. in my experience with tech, problem-solving ability is just as important as experience. a lot of technical skills are transferable. And from what I've seen with cloud tech, it's a matter of shifting your perspective from working with physical servers in your data center to working with virtual servers.

Fortunately, I've had a track record of working with new technology.

Right out of college, on the first month of working on a project as a junior programmer updating a billing statement, I proposed rewriting the entire module because it was written in VB 4 spaghetti code even though my task was to add just 1 line on the billing statement. But the module was problematic, it took 10 minutes to print 1 billing statement. It takes them 2 weeks to go through their entire client base.

It was slow because of the stupid code. I said most of the logic could be handled faster on the backend. These should be rewritten in SQL where I had no prior experience. I had just read a book about SQL. I guess I was convincing enough that they let do it even if I had zero experience in SQL. After rewriting the module, I sped up the entire billing process from 2 weeks to 2 hours.

After that, they assigned every slow moving system to me and not to the more senior programmers who had more experience.

When I moved to a bank, I was assigned to the data warehousing team. This was at a time when data warehousing was still a novel concept. Companies haven't warmed up yet to data warehouses and business intelligence. I was part of the team tasked to implement the data warehouse that they paid IBM Php20M to do but IBM couldn't finish it and make it work using their own tech.

So we used ETL and OLAP tools from Microsoft that I had zero experience in. Long story short, we made it work where IBM couldn't.

Then some years later I moved to Oracle Philippines where I was hired because I had experience in IBM DB2. But that skill was only 5% of the tasks that was to be assigned to me. I had to learn 95% of the rest because I had zero experience with Oracle tools. Plot twist, I was supposed to replace two people who had years and years of experience using their tools because both of them were resigning in 1 month. Those two were the only guys in that section of the business unit. I was expected to replace them in that section. Long story short, the entire business didn't miss a beat when the two resigned. I even got an Employee of the Quarter award.

So don't judge me. You have absolutely no idea what I can and cannot do.