Awesome dude, keep it rolling, sounds like you're ready to dive in to the job search.
If you're in any sort of decently populated area meetups meetups meetups. I made tons of contacts through meetups (meetup.com if you've never checked it out) and that's where a lot of jobs I heard about came through. I also of course had a list of companies I already was aware of/wanted to work at and applied to a number of those places, and then naturally googling around or looking at average salaries in various cities you see other job postings. If you're looking to get into startups in LA check out AngelList. Of course there are recruiters, which you can find many of on linkedin or even craigslist for various cities, and they got me a few phone interviews... maybe I just talked to a couple bad ones but they didn't seem to care much about what I wanted and were sending me jobs that weren't even dev jobs - network monitoring stuff or help desk, like wtf? I didn't look too hard for recruiters though, tbh, probably some good ones out there - and it's likely my lack of a degree was giving me a hard time here.
The job I ended up with was dumb luck friend networking, I had a friend already in IT for years who gamed with a lot of other IT professionals. Friend saw my progress and dedication, his place wasn't hiring any entry level devs - but he asked in his gaming group and one of those guys was working at a place that was expanding. He heard I was all hot on Ruby but knew multiple languages, and said one of the primary departments looking for a junior was a Ruby-heavy polyglot DevOps team. Said to put his name on the application (cause he'd get a nice little bonus), which I assume bumped me up in the resume viewing queue perhaps?
For me, most opportunities came from networking. Most of the big companies didn't call me, perhaps because the lack of a degree and no experience just filtered me right out? None of the game companies called me, but I expected that - maybe someday heh. I would estimate that I applied to probably 100 places over 6 months, and about 30 or so of those I actually took the time to customize my resume a bit, or make sure my cover letter had something specific to their company in it, etc. Out of all that I received probably 13 total call backs, ended up doing initial phone interviews with I believe 8 different companies IIRC - four of those went to further interviews with engineers: one place said not quite enough to hire as a dev, one didn't go so well with a Skype video + screenshare whiteboard (I was super nervous and the rapport was just a disaster from the start), one said not quite enough for dev but offered NOC job with paths to move into dev - didn't even ask to meet me in person first heh, and around the same time I had that NOC offer pending I was talking to the last company - the one from the gamer group - had a flight/in-person scheduled and was feeling good about it. Chased that and it worked out.
I've heard of people doing 3 or 5x as many applications on here, which I can't imagine, and it definitely had a lot of disappointments and wondering if I wasn't quite ready yet, etc - so whether it was dumb luck where I ended up or I just had to whittle down to the right place, I have no idea.