What has been your path to Inlight?
I studied design and visual arts (with a year of web dev) at James Cook University in Queensland but have been coding / playing around with websites since high school.
I moved to Melbourne the week after I graduated and freelanced for a little bit until I landed my first gig at a consultancy firm called Collabforge, working on the frontend of their collaboration platform (mostly in Drupal but with some Rails). A lot of their clients were in the government, and so I worked closely with DFAT for a while which was super interesting!
After this I joined a small studio called Malt Creative, working in a fast paced environment where I would own and lead multiple projects at a time, mostly in Wordpress and Shopify but I was exposed to a little React as well.
After a couple of years there I helped my boyfriend set up a small development studio for a couple of months, helping to get some initial projects off the ground and to shape the dev team there, as well as dipping my toe in app development. I wanted my next role to be in a larger dev team and where I can rapidly improve my Javascript skills, which is where Inlight comes into the picture.
Awesome! Lots of dev experience there, how have you found settling in to a new team? Anything more challenging than expected?
The first thing you’ll notice when starting at Inlight is how supportive and patient the team are here. From the first day I felt comfortable that I made the right decision. The only challenge was a personal one - sharpening my Javascript and general coding skills took a massive priority in my life since joining Inlight (for the positive!).