September 27, 2017

MRS 022: Allison McMillan

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33 minutes

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

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Allison

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September 27, 2017

MRS 022: Allison McMillan

Listen Later

33 minutes

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

GitLab Server

MatterMost

...more