Gold-Ask-lx

I know for big tech and startups no one cares about certificates and if I wanted to continue that path I wouldn't have made this post. but would you say having an additional small personal project on github would make the resume stand out more for agencies/consultancies? obviously having yet another multi-year significant role at Google/Amazon would be by far the best addition to the resume but clearly that's not an addition i can easily add

Yeah one thing I noticed while going through some of the material is how often I learned details about certain tech that I would have never had reason to come across working for big tech or startups. s3 duplication and different storage classes across multiple regions for example. I've obviously heard about and know the general concept of these things during scalability discussions and meetings and what not but there was never a technical or business reason for me to get familiar with it myself. It was always an abstract concept that was either handled in a proprietary way by another team in another building somewhere or something we only had to worry about if we 100x our user base and need to start expanding internationally after funding round xyz.

lol none of this is for "joy", I'm trying to figure out if having these certs will help me get more interviews/work

yep, i had to use the usual s3 + ec2/ecs + cloudwatch + various databases/message queues for quite a few different startups i was part of. learned all of it on the job.

i guess my question is more along the lines of "if I have these certs on my resume, is it going to pass through a lot more filters nowadays"

Even something as simple as using Vim motions to write/edit multi-line prompts is an improvement for me, and this is for things that have nothing to do with coding. But maybe that doesn't really count as "true" vim use?