Melissa Ho was already working in the technology industry but didn’t feel totally at home. As a product manager for Medrio, a Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company, she worked with developers and QA testers on developing products that could help them do a better job at things such as drug analysis. But she always felt like she was out of the loop when it came to making decisions about how the product should actually be built. Living in San Francisco, she decided to pursue something her friends were already doing: life as a software developer.

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