About Me.
Full Stack Web DeveloperHi! I am Leah Hoefling.
In 2016, I was a bright-eyed, recent college grad who had just landed a Social Media Customer Experience position at one of my dream companies, Lyft. It was my first step out of the safe nest of college and internships and into the tech world. During college, I dove deep into the world of Digital Marketing, learning a variety of skills such as Public Speaking, Social Media Strategy, Digital Photography, WordPress, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, Spotify Analytics Strategy, and more. I was excited to take these skills and put them to use in my role at Lyft. During my time at Lyft, I was able to learn more of the depths of the tech industry and the different roles required to make an excellent product. Because the Social Media Department is on the "front lines", in my role, I was constantly working with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Voice of Customer Specialists, and Branding Managers. After being in consistent communication with Engineering and Product, that side of the tech industry started peaking my interest because of how much creativity, strategy, and innovation went in to the product. From then on, I worked to integrate my Social Media role in with Engineering and Product by adding on additional responsibilities such as organizing Product Feedback, reporting major bugs through JIRA, and working with Engineering on the Lyft + Facebook Messenger integration. Eventually, I decided to take the exciting leap towards a full-time role as a Web Developer. I enrolled at Nashville Software School in the full-time Web Developer Bootcamp in order to gain the skills necessary to join a development team as a Junior Developer. After graduating in November 2018, I joined Nashville Software School as a Junior Instructor, and where I got the opportunity to pour into the lives of students who impact Nashville's tech scene. At NSS, I taught a variety of lessons on topics to the adult students and also executed ways on how to improve our curriculum to better teach the hard development concepts. I loved seeing the students start with almost no knowledge in development, and then 6 months later walk out of our doors as problem solvers and junior devs ready to take on the world. Now, I currently work for the State of Tennessee's Comptroller of the Treasury building applications to help make government work better.
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