Hello, I'm Marissa
A software engineer, yoga instructor, and music festival aficionado living in Washington, DC. This is my personal blog.
CODE / October 1, 2021
Recently at Mariana Tek, we started using feature flags in our deployment process. This was a brand new concept for me and I want to share what I learned.
CODE / August 6, 2021
As a developer, I spend a fair amount of time in the terminal. There are commands that I use over and over again that I've decided to set up shortcuts for to make my life easier.
CODE / June 25, 2021 / Career Transition
So, I made the decision to change careers, attended a Bootcamp and the real difficult part was next: finding a job. As of the time of this posting I am in my second software job so I'll talk about landing the first one and the second one. Everyone's career path will look different. It can take people months and even up to a year to land their first software job.
CODE / June 11, 2021 / Career Transition
So, I made the decision to change careers, and now I had to decide how I wanted to accomplish this. Luckily, this is a pretty common path so there are a lot of options and resources to figure out what the best option for me was.
CODE / May 28, 2021 / Career Transition
I currently work as a software engineer, but you may not know that before my time in tech, I spent 5 years as a high school physics teacher. There were many things I loved about teaching, but ultimately I quit because, for me, it wasn't fulfilling enough to...
INTRODUCTION / March 16, 2021 / First Post!
Starting a blog has been on my to do list for quite some time. Quarantine seems as good a time as any to actually get started. I'm going to begin posting mainly about software and my journey from high school teacher to software engineer and things I learned along the way. Later on I may branch out into my other passions, yoga, music, cooking & baking...