To feed your challenge withdrawal, I recommend getting into DevOps. Companies these days are goo-goo ga-ga over anything automated. If you can automate any part

To feed your challenge withdrawal, I recommend getting into DevOps. Companies these days are goo-goo ga-ga over anything automated. If you can automate any part of your build pipeline, just try it and see how it goes. You'll need to make time, and here's how: use your scrum tickets for cover. Pick an average amount of work off the backlog, and take an average amount of time to complete it. Probably, you will have a lot of time in between for your own projects. Work on it in secret and don't let management know what you're doing until you can SHOW them. Long-term, I recommend getting into management, either product, if you're more inclined to creative pursuits, or project, if you're more inclined to helping others. This will allow you to be released from the tedious grind of scrum tickets and do more high-level, skunkworks projects.