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I have experience in DIY genetic engineering (have run a DIY home genetic engineering lab for almost 10 years now https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-e... )
What you can do and what you can do are different things. Genetic engineering and biological manipulation go as deep as software, and tacit knowledge about execution is non-trivial to the point where you WILL mess up experiments (so expect to repeat a lot).
That said, you can still do some fun stuff. I would recommend trying to do something very small but actually novel. For example, if you've done a GFP transformation into E.coli, try to get the GFP transformation working in a new organism (maybe a yogurt bacteria). Keep it small though, and keep it single cellular, or else you are putting yourself into the pit of despair.
Also check out the Poly project (https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly). We're basically building (decent) open-source software for doing synthetic biology. Since you're a software developer, doing code reviews and reading our mega-comments (like https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly/blob/prime/transformat...) might help you understand some more of the fundamental engineering problems we synthetic biologists are encountering. Also, in code reviews, if you don't understand something, a practicing synthetic biologist will explain it to you so that we can improve our docs.