Since 2014, I’m working full-time with web apps, especially Ruby on Rails and all the MVC environment: from Docker in the back-end to HTML, (S)CSS and JavaScript (jQuery and ES6) in the front-end.
I'm also a kind of self-taught software engineer - I've graduated in Journalism.
I love the fact that you're empowering more women to the field - we DO NEED to have more of them for diversity of perspectives + professionalism improvs.
Thank you so much! I agree!! I feel that anyone (in this case women) who is not from this field can bring so much improvement by just having a look from a different angle.
Your story must be also really interesting! Would love to hear or read about it :)
Since 2014, I’m working full-time with web apps, especially Ruby on Rails and all the MVC environment: from Docker in the back-end to HTML, (S)CSS and JavaScript (jQuery and ES6) in the front-end.
After graduating from Journalism in Brazil, I didn’t feel like going to the Communication business so I looked back to what passionated me in the past and started remembering the days I was programming game bots to IRC channels (I was around 13 yr old). Then, I started a kind of Java bootcamp sponsored by the state (or province) and after completing that I went to another graduation: Software Engineering.
Even before starting the classes, I’ve got an internship in one of the best SaaS companies of South-Brazil (rdstation.com) and started to really understand web development - using Ruby on Rails and jQuery that time. After 3 semesters of out-of-date content in the university, I dropped and kept working as a full-timer. 3 years later, I moved to Toronto - Canada - and got a job as a front-end developer in a bootstrapped company called EventMobi (eventmobi.com). I've just completed my first year working for them! 😁
that's an amazing journey Angelika!
I'm also a kind of self-taught software engineer - I've graduated in Journalism.
I love the fact that you're empowering more women to the field - we DO NEED to have more of them for diversity of perspectives + professionalism improvs.
best of luck to you!
Thank you so much! I agree!! I feel that anyone (in this case women) who is not from this field can bring so much improvement by just having a look from a different angle.
Your story must be also really interesting! Would love to hear or read about it :)
In a (not-so-much) nutshell:
After graduating from Journalism in Brazil, I didn’t feel like going to the Communication business so I looked back to what passionated me in the past and started remembering the days I was programming game bots to IRC channels (I was around 13 yr old). Then, I started a kind of Java bootcamp sponsored by the state (or province) and after completing that I went to another graduation: Software Engineering.
Even before starting the classes, I’ve got an internship in one of the best SaaS companies of South-Brazil (rdstation.com) and started to really understand web development - using Ruby on Rails and jQuery that time. After 3 semesters of out-of-date content in the university, I dropped and kept working as a full-timer. 3 years later, I moved to Toronto - Canada - and got a job as a front-end developer in a bootstrapped company called EventMobi (eventmobi.com). I've just completed my first year working for them! 😁
Coool! That is super interesting! :)
My manager is also from Brazil! :)
Great spirit! Keep it :)
And good luck on your journey!