This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Allison McMillan. Allison is a software developer at Collective Idea, a software consulting company that solves real-world software problems. Allison is very excited about working on a number of projects and learning new things in the development world. Allison was a recent guest on Ruby Rogues and will be a speaker at Ruby Dev Summit coming up on October 16-21, 2017.
In this episode we learn more about Allison’s journey as a startup founder, to make a career change to a developer, all while and making a name in the dev community and gaining a dev job. Allison talks about her involvement and contributions to the Ruby community.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Allison got into programming working as a non-profit executive and dealing with change in the organization.
- Getting in involve in the DC Tech Community
- Joining the Rails Girls Workshop
- Got her first job by attending the Ruby Conf. at the Scholar Guide Program
- Working Remotely as a junior developer
- Doing light talks at Ruby Conf. to gain authority
- Allison mentions doing conference speaking and organizing as apart of contributing to the Ruby community
- Allison’s favorite thing to speak about at conferences involves writing interactive workshops.
Links:
- DC Tech Community
- Rails Girls
- http://rubyconf.org/scholarships
- Blog site - DayDreams In Ruby
- @allie_p
- Ruby Dev Summit - Free
Picks:
Allison
- Hello Ruby by Linda Liukas
- Baking - SmittenKitchen
Charles
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