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@swavvycloud

👩🏻‍💻 seniorSRE| @ morningstarinc| Toronto AWS DevOps pro| Azure104|M.IT Mindful• Soul-snack • Cloud-coded inspo Tech girl in her whimsical era🦸🏻‍♀️
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Drip comfy, strong coffee, and clean code (after fighting the code for my life) energy. #work #ootd #tech #instafit #ai
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2 days ago
editing resumes 📑 filling applications/adding keywords for ATS 🔤 writing cover letters 👩🏻‍💻 networking on LinkedIn 🤝 preparing for interviews 🥷🏻 preparing for roles asking for 10 tools in one job 🦭 explaining Kubernetes projects like your life depends on it 🕸️ building projects just to prove “experience” 👩🏻‍🔧 passing technical rounds and still getting rejected or ghosted 🧞‍♂️ and yet… showing up the next day to try again.🧚🏼‍♀️ Finding a cloud or IT role in Canada that matches your skills and goals is challenging in a competitive job market. In cloud computing, roles like DevOps, Support, Operations, and SRE often overlap, making it even harder to find the right fit. the job search process really changes you. it teaches patience, resilience, confidence, and how to keep believing in yourself even when nothing is working. there were days when one rejection email could ruin everything. days when giving up felt easier. but behind every offer letter is someone who refused to quit. and then one day, after all the applications, interviews, stress, and uncertainty… one email finally says: “we’d like to offer you the position.” ✨ and suddenly every struggle, every late night, every rejection, every “almost” moment makes sense. #womenintech #motivation #tech #technology #cloud
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4 days ago
gravity said ‘be serious #instamood #ootd #funny #instafashion #fun
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9 days ago
Friday mantra : Keeping Jira tidy while my brain runs on 3 tabs and 27 emotions. 🤿 #womenintech #friyay #corporate #motivation #ootd
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15 days ago
Guess the Pantone color of 2026 🫯 Head in the clouds, hands on the keyboard, and 100% powered by sparkles and high availability. 🩰☁️⌨️✨ As a cloud engineer I am absolutely floating over the new Pantone Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer. It’s soft, it’s airy, and it’s ethernal ☁️ This color has me feeling so nostalgic. I’ve had my head in the cloud since 2018, back when I started an internship with zero clue what a “server” actually was. I think I literally thought they were just magical boxes in the sky! 🪄 Who knew cloud infrastructure could look this dreamy? Ten years of debugging, scaling and optimizing my skills the universe just whispered: “Plot twist: you’re just getting started.” 🎬 It took a decade to find my rhythm, but now I’m dancing through the clouds like Jagger. 💃💻 🩰no sweat Mood of 2026 : building a digital kingdom in the dreamiest shade of white canvas.🍭☁️ 💻 Stay scalable and sparkly! 💅 #womenintech #computer #pantone #instamood #cloudengineer
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23 days ago
••• Came to Udemy to learn AI… stayed because the motivational quotes debugged me first 🫠🦾 Now I’m fixing my code, fixing my mindset, and slowly upgrading version ;) 💻🧋••• #ai #computerscience #SelfGrowth #TechLife #womenintech
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26 days ago
Yeah, cloud engineering is ‘easy’… just managing AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring, scaling, and uptime like it’s a normal day—basically turning what learned in computer science into real-world chaos, fixing issues on the fly, and still making it look smooth at work and pretending everything is fine while something is definitely on fire ☁️😎🔥Well… it’s just part of the job🦭 #computer #informationtechnology #cloud #aws #motivation
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1 month ago
Monday Mundane: Got that Starbucks and next thing you know it’s “great work” from the manager… yeah nah that’s just strategy tbh 🦸🏻‍♀️ t-dot grind different—show up, sip up, speak less, execute 💼💅 lowkey investing in caffeine and collecting wins like it’s a side quest 📈✨ not luck… just consistent energy + a lil delusion + coffee 🧋 #womenintech #computer #monday #motivation #work
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1 month ago
Day 2: Deep Learning Deep learning = layers. Strawberry pastry = layers. Coincidence? I think not. 🍰🍓 Deep learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence where computers learn patterns from large amounts of data using many layers of neural networks. 📑📊 Deep learning is like building a strawberry pastry—stacking layers until simple ingredients turn into something smart and meaningful. 💡 When you bite a pastry, you don’t taste flour, sugar, and strawberries separately—you taste the final combination. Similarly, deep learning combines many small features (edges, shapes, textures) to recognize something complex like a face, a voice, or a cat in a photo. 🥞🍓 Deep learning models improve by training on data, adjusting their internal “weights” until predictions become accurate. 🕵🏻‍♀️ #ai #computerscience #artificialintelligence #cloudcomputing #aigenerated
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2 months ago
Today’s forecast: 100% cafe, drizzle, and productivity ☕☁️💻 First chapter of AI : AI neural networks detect patterns… just like humans do? 👾 Neural networks resemble the human brain because they use layers of connected nodes, like neurons, to process and learn patterns. 🪢. #AI #cloudlovers #Toronto #computerscience #artificial
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2 months ago
skyline, lake breeze, and nature all at once 🍁🏙️🛥️
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4 months ago
🚀 Thinking about starting your Cloud Engineer or SRE journey? Relax — you don’t need to be a coding wizard to begin. Most roles focus on: Infrastructure & deployment 🏗️ Monitoring & system reliability 👀 Automation tools & scripts 🤖 Yes, coding (Python, Bash) helps, but understanding the cloud ecosystem is the real MVP. Start small, level up your skills, and worry about the missing semicolon later 😅 💡 Pro tip : Focus on AWS/GCP/Azure, Networking basics, Linux/Windows, and cloud monitoring first — coding comes naturally as you grow. ☁️💻 Basically: you can survive, thrive, and land your first cloud role without being a coding expert. Cloud is more about solving problems than writing perfect code. 🔧✨ #CloudJourney #SRELife #TorontoTech #GenZInTech #CloudEngineering #DevOps #TechCareer #womenintech #tech #cloud
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5 months ago