Build a strong portfolio on GitHub and a record of lots of contributions to open source projects. To be honest with you, DBA's no longer exist at many companie

Build a strong portfolio on GitHub and a record of lots of contributions to open source projects. To be honest with you, DBA's no longer exist at many companies. Most modern databases are easy enough to use that all you need is developers. My current company has a single DBA for 7 development teams. If you want to break into software dev the low hanging fruit is usually web development with something like PHP. You're going to be competing with a ton of people that have degrees and experience so try not to get disappointed about your search. If you can't land a developer job straight away, I know many who have gotten into dev by starting as testers and building their knowledge laterally within the company. It take the average candidate with experience and a degree maybe 4 interviews to get an offer, you will probably have to do at least triple that.