Day 0: A new job! (for 2 weeks)

Avi Warner
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

For the next 2 weeks, I’ll be joining the Engineering team at Collective Health building an internal tool that I get to turn around and use. It’s a little daunting, really exciting, and I’m going to be sharing my experiences here. Successes, failures, lessons learned, surprises uncovered and misconceptions corrected.


I decided a year ago, that after 10 years working in software companies, I wanted to learn how to actually build software. It takes a village to raise a website, I’m not disparaging my contributions to the organizations I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of. Still, I felt (and still feel) that there is so much to gain in this industry for having a strong baseline understanding in how software is designed, built, deployed, and maintained.

Me after my first commit on Monday

This month, I wrapped up a1 year part time web development bootcamp at Bloc.* In my current role I don’t write code every day, but I’ve been able to automate chunks of my work with Javascript. I don’t do deploys, but I use JIRA projects and Kanban boards to manage my team’s sprints. In a 100 ways, my work life has improved with what I’ve learned. Also I built pretty fun game of Pong.


After working on projects for study, fun, and a bit of side work, I’m confident that the value I add will at the very least outweigh the extra help I’ll need. Plus, in depth knowledge of the code base will be helpful given I’ll be a primary user of the software.

Please do stick around, ask questions & make suggestions. See you next time!

*Want to learn more about working at Collective Health or studying at Bloc? Bug me, happy to share my experiences and thoughts.

Avi Warner

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