How did you pivot from web to your current position? I'm an amateur radio operator but not trained as an electrical engineer. If my current niche ever became stale or went away, I've always wondered if I could work in something radio-adjacent.
Thankfully I didn't need very deep EE/radio knowledge to get up to speed in my role. It's sufficient to be able to read an EE paper and extract out the end result. For example: one of our hardware guys wants me to simulate a phased-array antenna. They hand me a paper that derives the gain calculation based on the geometry of the array. I don't need to understand the derivations as long as I can translate the result into modelling software.
On the software/networking side of things the biggest change is working with protocols other than http.
