Salesforce software engineer

Nayonna Purnell is a Salesforce engineer at a consulting company with over 10,000 employees. She’s a career switcher who started in the education field. She’s been a software engineer for 2 years.

Nayonna had her first experience with code in her undergraduate degree, where her first career of choice was to become a lawyer. “I remember, in my undergraduate experience, they gave us the opportunity to work on a program, where we made a Dreamweaver website for a science course. I loved it; I believed I was a developer.” After graduating, Nayonna went on to become a teacher. She recalls the second encounter she had with coding. “I became involved with a women’s group that was looking to advertise a conference and they asked, ‘Does anyone know web design?’ So I raised my hand because in my mind, if I could build it in Dreamweaver, I could learn it there.” She learned about opportunities in tech...