From dietitian to developer
Written 2026-10-26, dated to the video.
I trained as a clinical dietitian. From 2010 to 2014 I was a director of Nutrition Experts, and in 2011 I published nutrition research.
In 2014 I did FireBootCamp, SSW's developer bootcamp, and in November 2014 I started at SSW as a software architect.
In March 2015 Pluralsight turned that story into a short video.
If you are thinking about the same move: the field you come from is not wasted. Knowing what the software is for is half the job.
Reading this in 2026
This post is dated to the video, but I wrote it in 2026, looking back. In 2017 I became a Pluralsight author myself, on the platform the video is about. The nutrition side never left either: I still build Foodzone, a nutrition analysis platform for Australian nutritionists.