[brudgers]

So long as the goal is to use software engineering to help, you run the risk of staying in the bubble. Nobody can eat an app or PaaS. It won't keep anyone out of the rain unless someone has built a roof out in meat space. More intractable is that roofs and happy meals scale linearly. Spinning up 1000 more EC2 instances doesn't address acute demand spikes.

These are hard problems. There is a reasonable probability that your professional skills are not all that applicable.However, you are not in poor company. For all that Jimmy Carter can do, every board he nails together makes a difference in some family's lives.

Good luck.