I’m with you on most of your post, but this is straight up wrong.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellh/
Or are you saying that he's not the author? Commits seem to suggest otherwise.
commit fb9c58f0e20a85a5358142ddb39a2f74d3bbe69b
Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Fri May 23 11:03:38 2014 -0700
config: better error message
commit 089822a36f0a5e4c583ab401b7496b48bfa31d65
Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Fri May 23 10:52:19 2014 -0700
config: some comments
commit ec3f72703c82f50787ef86498d856a5798900ad8
Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Thu May 22 16:56:28 2014 -0700
Initial work on config
commit 649cf336e86da10910f6e50ea3cfaad507a2e336
Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Wed May 21 16:28:53 2014 -0700
Initial commitAn operations engineer and a sysadmin are two entirely different roles.
A system administrator administers systems while an operations engineer dedicated their time writing code to automate processes.
Sysadmins automate their work. Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin.
Systems Engineer is also another title for the same thing.
Platform Engineering (depending on where you are) is yet another variation.
If you're responsible for the operating system, monitoring, clustering, hardware etc; then you're firmly in "sysadmin" land.