Special Ed Teacher to AWS Hero // My Cloud Journey

I was invited to join AWS Community Heroes program in fall, 2020. I was a Special Education Teacher in training when I had brain surgery for Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) at 22. After that, I was looking for a less physically intensive career, and landed with IT Helpdesk. That began my strange journey into a career in tech, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, and content creation.

0:00 Introduction to Hiroko Nishimura
2:50 AVM and Brain Surgery
5:11 Special Ed Teacher to Disabled
6:04 Graduation and Job Search
6:54 Career shift into Tech
10:09 AWS and Cloud Practitioner Exam
11:17 AWS Newbies
15:02 Teaching on LinkedIn Learning
16:13 Quitting Corporate
17:47 AWS Community Hero
19:40 Cloud Newbies

Now, I help people with "non-traditional" technical backgrounds about Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, and taking the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam! Thinking about switching your career? Cloud Computing might be the place to start! 🥂

☁️ AWS for Non-Engineers Book with Manning Publishing: https://awsfornonengineers.com
☁️ Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers Courses at LinkedIn Learning: https://introtoaws.com
☁️ AWS Newbies (Get started with AWS from 0!): https://awsnewbies.com
☁️ Cloud Newbies (Support Community): https://cloudnewbies.com
☁️ Blog Posts
- From AWS Newbies to AWS Hero: https://hiroko.io/aws-hero/
- From Disabled Special Ed Teacher to AWS Community Leader: https://hiroko.io/career/
☁️ AWS Heroes Program: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/comm...