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No this is great in and of itself - what I would tell you is to treat your github projects, even if you're the sole contributor, like you're working on a team. Checkout a feature branch, complete your code, then PR it into main/master/release/whatever, even if you're the one doing the code review for yourself. Even if you don't get to experience other devs (inevitably borking what you're working on) in the codebase at the same time, it'll give you a better idea of what the workflow should look like.
This all makes the SRE part more understandable and more within reach. I wouldn't lead with, "I don't have any dev experience"; I would lead with "I've been a software engineer for x years, specializing in atmospheric modeling." Whoever is interviewing you will probably dig and figure out that you were a solo developer, but....you were still a software dev, and the first job in this industry is way harder than the next couple. Lean into that - you have the job title, you have the resume, you're looking to take 'the next step' into SRE/DevOps, because as a solo-dev, you had to handle all that stuff yourself, and you figured out that you liked it and were good at it.
We've all been the new guy trying to break into the field - pay it forward after you land that first SRE gig.