Competencies Overview

Competencies Overview

System Summary

Metric Value

Domains

20

Subdomains

118

Body of Knowledge Topics

~1,323

Personal Status Entries

~148

Overall Coverage

~11%

Baseline Established

2026-04-08

Coverage = personal skills with documented proficiency divided by total BoK topics. This is a deliberately honest baseline — the new BoK model exposes real gaps that the legacy 13-domain flat model obscured.

Domain Coverage

Domain Subdomains BoK Topics Personal Skills Coverage %

Networking

8

86

16

19%

Security

10

118

18

15%

CLI & Terminal

5

56

15

27%

Infrastructure

7

78

14

18%

DevOps

6

60

10

17%

DevSecOps

5

51

10

20%

Documentation

4

40

10

25%

AI/ML

8

81

0

0%

Software Architecture

5

58

0

0%

Cloud

6

72

10

14%

Programming Languages

10

103

5

5%

Software Engineering

7

68

8

12%

Data Engineering

6

56

9

16%

Databases

5

47

1

2%

Platforms & Products

6

53

12

23%

Mathematics

8

52

10

19%

Human Languages

6

32

10

31%

Automation

4

38

1

3%

Observability

4

37

1

3%

Professional

4

37

2

5%

Totals

118

~1,323

~148

~11%

Personal Skill Level Distribution

Level Count % of Personal Representative Skills

Expert

~5

~3%

802.1X/EAP-TLS, AsciiDoc/Antora, ISE Policy Engine

Advanced

~20

~14%

awk/sed/jq, Vault PKI, VyOS, FastAPI, Git, BIND DNS

Intermediate

~60

~41%

Python, k3s, OSPF/BGP, SSH-CA, Podman, Spanish

Beginner

~45

~30%

Go, Ansible, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, Statistics

Novice

~18

~12%

AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Django, Rust

Domain Categories

Category Domains Total Topics Personal Skills Coverage

Network & Security

Networking, Security

~204

34

17%

Infrastructure & Operations

Infrastructure, DevOps, DevSecOps, Observability, Automation

~264

26

10%

Software & Development

Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Software Architecture

~229

13

6%

CLI & Tools

CLI & Terminal, Platforms & Products, Documentation

~149

37

25%

Data & Cloud

Cloud, Data Engineering, Databases

~175

20

11%

Applied Sciences

Mathematics, AI/ML

~133

10

8%

Human & Professional

Human Languages, Professional

~69

12

17%

Strongest Domains

Domain Coverage Strengths

Human Languages

31%

Spanish (Advanced), English (Expert), active language methodology

CLI & Terminal

27%

awk/sed/jq mastery, shell scripting, terminal-first workflow

Documentation

25%

AsciiDoc/Antora (Expert), doc-as-code, 20 published standards

Platforms & Products

23%

Cisco ISE (Expert), Vault, VyOS, k3s production deployment

DevSecOps

20%

Vault PKI, age encryption, secrets management workflows

Domains Requiring Immediate Investment

Domain Coverage Blocking Factor

AI/ML

0%

No hands-on ML experience; blocks emerging AI engineering roles

Software Architecture

0%

No distributed systems or system design experience; blocks architect roles

Databases

2%

No relational/SQL depth; blocks data-adjacent and backend roles

Automation

3%

No Ansible/Terraform; blocks infrastructure-at-scale roles

Observability

3%

No Prometheus/Grafana stack; blocks SRE and production operations roles