Spotlight On Charissa Johnson
You may have seen our monthly Spotlight On blog in 2019; this year we have changed our format to highlight our members on a quarterly basis. For Q1 of 2020, we couldn’t think of a better member to highlight than Charissa Johnson.
Charissa is a Software Engineer at Bluebeam in Dallas, Texas working with React and .NET on a daily basis. This year she’s already impacted our community by leading an awesome tech talk on Pair Programming Best Practices. Her coding journey is unique–she started off as a Military Medic before taking a leap of faith and doing a Coding Boot Camp paired with self taught learning before landing her first job.
She’s been a member of multiple chapters of Women Who Code for a few years, including Seattle, but became actively involved in DFW in late 2019.
She joined looking for a group of women in STEM, and stayed for a strong network of supportive and encouraging members. We’re so happy that she has come into her own as an Engineer and has found it easier to move past imposter syndrome in her day-to-day work life.
When she’s not being a stellar Software Engineer, you can find Charissa with her precious dogs. They are by far her main priority, and she even takes them with her when she goes hiking and swimming. She manages to read 1–2 books a month on top of doing yoga, biking, boxing, and even rock climbing!
Her motivation to tackle each day is having a job she loves and co-workers that she enjoys. She loves the opportunity to work on a project she cares about and having the chance to continue to build toward her persnal and professional goals.
Charissa, we’re so thankful to have you as an active part of our network. We cannot wait to see all the great things you accomplish in your career and with our community for the rest of 2020 and beyond!
Find her on Twitter at: @DevCharissa
