yep any good developer can learn new tech quickly for example I taught my self node.js and mongodb well enough to produce a mvp in less than 7 days it ran for over a year with i think one crash in that time.
Back when I was younger my boss came to me and said oh we have just brought a new piece of exotic kit (about 3x my salary) go and hook it up to one of our pdp's get it interfaced (no drivers available so I had to work out how to do real-time device drivers and then write the calibration software)
Then go and talk to one of the senior engineers and work out with him how we can best use it to do 3d digitizing of droplet clouds.
Back when I was younger my boss came to me and said oh we have just brought a new piece of exotic kit (about 3x my salary) go and hook it up to one of our pdp's get it interfaced (no drivers available so I had to work out how to do real-time device drivers and then write the calibration software)
Then go and talk to one of the senior engineers and work out with him how we can best use it to do 3d digitizing of droplet clouds.