That was a fun rabbit hole 🙃

Not inaccurate lol

When I first joined my current company, they let me and another junior kinda have free reign because they didn’t know what to do with us.

Another team wanted to automate a tedious task so we volunteered and dove in. I learned a lot about PKI and the tool was going to be useful in a lot of places in the company. The other engineer and I thought we were on our way to a patent lol.

After presenting our work to an eager manager, we were given the green light to implement it. When the various design, network, and security engineers saw what we were planning on doing they nearly shit themselves lol.

We had basically created a bespoke package manager and CA and were crossing every network boundary out company had. I did get a gift card though so that was nice 🤷‍♀️

Ot fucking sucks because I watched this whole train wreck play out in slow motion.

We told our managers from the beginning it was a waste of time and that we should focus on the more important project that will depreciate this one anyway.

I built the tool they wanted, within the constraints of our corporate network configuration, and it worked really well. But it required the customer to change one thing about their workflow, which would require certification.

So they slowly scoped it back and back until it does basically nothing.

But even though the app does nothing and has no users, I still had to generate all the documents and artifacts and recovery plans etc. I wish sometimes that I would have gotten my degree in civil engineering or something more real.

🤣