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MRS 022: Allison McMillan

Guests :

Allison McMillan

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Sep 27, 2017

Duration : 32 Minutes

Show Notes

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.

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MRS 022: Allison McMillan

Show Notes