I spent most of my career until mid 2020 at small companies. I was “good enough” at pre-sales, writing SOWs, project management, designing and developing your

I spent most of my career until mid 2020 at small companies. I was “good enough” at pre-sales, writing SOWs, project management, designing and developing your typical enterprise online or analytics/ETL solution, “polyglot persistence”, “DevOps” at least if you gave me an empty AWS account and admin access, I could create your “Well Architected”, “12 factor architecture”, etc. Fast forward to 2020, when I went from a 60 person startup to working at AWS in Professional Services where I do the same type of enterprisey things as a billable consultant, I realized that in most of those areas, there are plenty of people who can run circles around me. But, my “specialty” is that I am a generalist and can go into your typical enterprise and talk to everyone in the organization from sales, to finance, to security, to developers, to the infrastructure people, etc and I’m self aware enough to know what I don’t know and know when I need to bring in a specialist.