My Ruby Story

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 WorkshopGot her first job by attending the Ruby Conf. at the Scholar Guide ProgramWorking Remotely as a junior developerDo