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by doctor_eval 1289 days ago
The thing is that in computing, the “janitor” stuff is the hardest, and needs to be done by the best people. Keeping things clean is really tough, and only people who understand what “clean and simple” means, can do it.

Outside of actual system design and writing code, I have spent a huge amount of my time over the last few years doing things like setting up CI/CD, E2E testing, writing templates, etc. Because it’s really hard to get this right, to have a vision for how things should be.

My point is that it sounds like you’re doing an awesome job. I’m sure you qualify as a software architect.