Adam Bullock

Senior Cloud Engineer

Adam Bullock is a senior cloud engineer who has spent years building, breaking, and fixing production systems across DevOps, backend, and data. He writes practical, hands-on pieces about the craft of real engineering work - debugging live systems, infrastructure as code, and the habits that separate engineers who ship from the ones who stall - and about how developers actually get hired in the age of AI, when knowing how to code is no longer enough and proof of real work is everything. His writing leans practical over theoretical: the exact commands, the trade-offs, and the war stories behind them, drawn from real incidents rather than tutorials. On HeyDevJob he covers the full range of the job - DevOps and Kubernetes, backend services and APIs, data pipelines, security, and applied AI - always from the angle of what actually ships and what actually gets candidates hired. The throughline across everything he writes is simple: stop preparing in the abstract, go fix something real, and keep the proof where a hiring manager can see it.

Posts

How to Rename a Directory in Linux (with Examples)Rename a directory in Linux with the mv command: mv old-name new-name. Covers folders with files, spaces in names, permission-denied errors, and bulk renames.AI Killed the Side-Project Portfolio. Here's What Replaced It.For 15 years the advice was build side projects. Then a machine learned to build them in ninety seconds. Here is what hiring managers actually slow down for now.

About

Adam Bullock writes for the HeyDevJob blog, where working engineers cover debugging real production systems, the skills that actually get you hired across DevOps, backend, data, security, and AI, and how to build a portfolio of work you can show. HeyDevJob is a hands-on platform where you fix real broken systems in a live cloud workspace and every fix lands on a portfolio a hiring manager can open - so the writing here is grounded in real work, not theory.