Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Marla Brizel

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Marla Brizel. Marla works at Test Double and has been programming full time for the past four years. She first got into programming when she got a job at a startup where they helped her learn how to program for herself and she fell in love with it. They talk about her background as a project manager and the importance of empathy for the user. They then touch on how she got into Ruby and things that she is particularly proud of contributing to the Ruby community.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Marla intro
How did you first get into programming?
Has been working in tech for the past decade
Working at a startup
What was it about coding made you want to make the switch?
Likes that there are always more puzzles to solve
You can always be learning new things in the programming world
Get a Coder Job Course
Code is the easy part of the job
How programming has progressed over the years
Test Double
Project management background
How did you wind up as a project manager?
Building empathy for the user
How did you get into Ruby?
Girl Develop It
Why Ruby?
Ruby reads like English
How did you wind up at Test Double?
The value of conferences
What have you done with Ruby that you are proud of?
Denver Startup Week
Ruby on Rails
Elections
And much, much more!

Links:

Test Double
Get a Coder Job Course
Ruby
Girl Develop It
Denver Startup Week
@MarlaBrizel
Marla’s GitHub
MarlaBrizel.com

Picks:

Charles

TripIt
NG conf
MicroConf
RubyHack
Microsoft Build
Podcast Movement
Get a Job Course
“Ruby Rants” coming soon

Marla

Vokl Aura Skis
dry-rb
GitX
Silvercar
Denver Airport Train
Denver Startup Week

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