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Kelly MacLeod
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech
English - March 20, 2019 00:12 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Education How To codeschools gibill military operationcode veterans vetsintech Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Kelly served in the Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan, learned to code via online courses and self-teaching, worked as a freelancer, and is now with Topcoder, a crowdsourcing solutions company. She talks about her career path through college, military service, getting out and being an Admin, and deciding she could do even more. So she used the free resources on the Web and some of the online academies to learn to code, worked as a freelance developer, and now has a full time job with Topcoder.com. Kelly also talks about the challenges facing military spouses and how "freelance developer" is a great career that they can practice anywhere there's Internet.