At a company where I once worked, there was a development team that started working on an orchestration system for a cloud platform called OpSource[1]. It was s

At a company where I once worked, there was a development team that started working on an orchestration system for a cloud platform called OpSource[1]. It was sort of a CloudFormation-like system but driven by XML (they were Java developers). The team consulted with some of us who worked on infrastructure. Most of my fellow team mates rejected the project, but I enjoyed attending the meetings and ended up embedded in the development team and delivered most of the code that did the orchestration. The project was successful and I went back to my own team for a while, but they pulled me back in to work on another project. I ended up working with them most of the remaining time I was an employee at that company, even though I wasn't connected to them on the org chart. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpSource https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpSource