What if the students who will build tomorrow's technology never learn how it's actually deployed? Growing Future Operators is a story for technology professionals, educators, and anyone who believes schools should teach the skills that actually get people hired. Freddie Lima is a rare kind of engineer equally at home writing code, designing systems, and securing them. When he proposes that local schools should teach DevOps, the practice at the heart of modern software deployment, he sets off a battle between two very different superintendents: Jack Whitaker, a traditionalist with a stellar graduation record, and Frank Spencer, a pragmatist determined to give his students a real-world advantage. What follows is a story about innovation, resistance, and the gap between the classroom and the technology workforce told by an author with 35 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Security Engineer. This novel is for: • Technology professionals who want to see their world reflected in fiction • Educators and school administrators thinking about curriculum innovation • Students and parents navigating the future of STEM education • Anyone who has wondered why schools don't teach DevOps, cloud, or cybersecurity A novel grounded in real technology, real education debates, and the belief that the future belongs to operators. Praised by readers as 'a manifesto wrapped in storytelling' and 'almost therapeutic' for educators, GFO.
