Deploy Your Career Remotely — The Cloud Native Way

डलरमा कमाउने, रुपैयाँमा रमाउने

Journey

• Upwork 2022

• 200+ job application  Submitted

• Got into 10+ interview round

• Cracked 3 Jobs

• Proxify 2023

• Quantstamp 2024

Journey

About.me

• Bidhee (Android Developer)
• Thorangs (Startup with my friends)
• CloudFactory (Senior DevOps Engineer) 
• Proxify (Senior DevOps Engineer)
• Quantstamp (Senior DevOps Engineer)

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbalman

Github   : https://github.com/rbalman

Objective

• Remote market landscape
• How to make portfolio stronger
• How to apply for the job 
• Mindset for approaching interviews
• Remote job sites

Remote is not easy

Booming Market

Market Sentiment

Extreme Competition

Extreme Competition

Location Based Remote Jobs

Remote is not easy but..

Rewarding

Winning the game

You don’t have to be the best to win — you just have to score.

Qualifying for Interview

Barriers

• AI agents
• HR reviews
• Number of applicants
• Skill gaps
• Lack of good portfolio

"focus only on what you have

  control over"

Portfolio == Trust

• CV
• Personal site
• Linkendin profile
• Community involvement
  • talks
  • open source contribution
  • organizing the events
• Github Apps/tools
• Certifications
• Freelancing portfolio like upwork
• Content Creation blogs/videos

"Talk is cheap, Show me the code"
- Linus Torvalds

Example

VS

Example

• Github Profile
  • https://github.com/chun vs https://github.com/rbalman

VS

Let's Do Some Math

Scenario of 1000 applicants.

Applicants with:

• Certifications (50%)
• Community Involvements (50%)
• Pet projects/tools (50%)
• Personal blogs (50%)

Chances of applicants:

• With no portfolio: 1 out of 1000
• With all the portfolio: 1 out of 60

Career Roadmap

• https://roadmap.sh
  • ​https://roadmap.sh/devops
  • https://roadmap.sh/backend
• Research Jobs Posts

Applying the job

• Take your time to internalize job description(eg. captcha)
• Research about the company culture, startup/enterprise, product.
• Create new CV for that particular Job
• Creat new Cover letter for that particular job
• Timing of the job post
• Getting personal recommendation always helps

Room for improvement

• Improve CVs over the period of time with feedback
  • future yourself
  • refactor through chatgpt
  • peers review
  • CV scoring apps
  • hit and trial
• Keep updating your portfolios
  • blogs
  • certifications
  • achievements

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement"

Goal settings

• Apply at least 1 job per day until I get 1 interview
• Get AWS Solution Architect Certification by Aug 2025
• Write 5 blogs in July about any Cloud Native topic
• Give 2 community talks in 2025
• In 2025 I will earn $4000/month salary

"If you are not constantly

 failing there is something

 wrong"

Interview mindset

• Opportunity for your growth
• Interview as the normal process of learning
• Being honest is always good
• Preparing for common questions
  • tell me about yourself
  • tell me what you did in the last company
  • most challenging work you did so far
• be prepared to take their views
  • benefits
  • salary
  • team size
  • technology in use

Risks

Remote job sites

• https://weworkremotely.com/
• https://remoteok.com/
• https://www.skipthedrive.com/
• https://remote.com/jobs/all
• https://www.glassdoor.com/Job
• https://www.workingnomads.com/jobs
• Create your own book marks