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Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Shaundai Person: Here's How to Sell Yourself (and Believe in the Product ๐)
Meet Shaundai Person ๐บ๐ธ! Shaundai is a senior software engineer at Netflix, but she hasn't always been a coder. She studied entrepreneurship and had a long, successful...
Creator of #100DaysOfCode, Alex Kallaway: Here's How to Embrace Discomfort for Growth
Meetย Alex Kallaway ๐ท๐บ๐จ๐ฆ! Alex is a Lead Full-Stack Developer, but he hasn't always been a coder. First, he was a violinist; then, he was interested in having a busine...
What to Do If Nobody's Hiring (and How to Slide Into Their DMs When They Do), with Rachel Nabors
Meetย Rachel Lee Nabors ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง! They are an award-winning cartoonist who transitioned to become a developer with a passion for teaching the world how to code. Rachel has...
This is How Companies Think About Hiring, with Dominik Piฤ tek
Meet Dominik Piฤ tek ๐ต๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ง! Dominik moved to the UK from Poland in search of career opportunities. He worked odd jobs, acquired a varied set of skills, and became a part...
The Safe Exit: How to Quit Your Job the Right Way, with Ian Douglas
Meet Ian Douglas ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ! Developer, DevRel, Tech Educator, Career Coach, and author of The Tech Interview Guide, Ian Douglas, has been coding professionally since 1996. ...
Early WhatsApp Engineer Jean Lee: Keep Trying New Things in Tech!
Meet Jean Lee! She was the nineteenth engineer at WhatsApp (that was even before it got acquired by Facebook!) and then worked at Meta as an engineering manager for si...
How Not to Be Afraid of Git, with O'Reilly Author Anna Skoulikari
โจUse this link for a free month of O'Reilly Learning and read Anna's book and any other resource on the platform! โจ Meet Anna Skoulikari! She's a UX designer turned fr...
The (Not so) Hidden Benefits of Talking about Code, with Scrimba Bootcamp Lead Micha
โจUse this link for a 20% discount on the Scrimba bootcamp! โจ Meet Michaella Rodriguez! If you're already in the Scrimba Discord community, you probably know her. If no...
Neurodiversity in Tech and Why We Should Care About It, with Parul Singh
Meet Parul Singh ๐ฌ๐ง! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruit...
The Only Thing Worth Investing in Is Yourself, with Scrimba Student รzge
Meet รzge Ahras ๐น๐ท! รzge studied computer enigneering, but felt her coding skills weren't up to par. She yearned to transition into frontend development and explore cu...
How to Figure Out What You Want to Do, with Scrimba Student Amy
Meet Amy Posten ๐บ๐ธ! Amy was a veterinary technician for fifteen years before she decided to switch careers. First, she discovered freeCodeCamp while on maternity leave...
Slow Down to Speed Up: Teacher-Turned-Developer Chris on Successful Adult Learning and Landing his Dream Role
Meet Chris Webster ๐ฌ๐ง! Chris is a full-stack developer based in Reading. In a past life, he taught Mandarin to both children and adults and obtained a master's degree ...
The State of React (and Should You Still Learn It in 2024), with Dev Agrawal
Meet Dev Agrawal ๐ฎ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ! With a name like that, how could he not become a developer? He's a software developer, developer advocate, and content creator. Moreover, he's a...
Everybody's Doing Their Best... Even Tech Recruiters (and This Is How to Get Their Attention), with Parul Singh
Meet Parul Singh ๐ฌ๐ง! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruit...
The Making of an Industry: The Rise of AI Engineering, with Swyx
Meet Shawn Wang (Swyx) ๐บ๐ธ! Swyx is a developer, writer, and startup advisor. If you listen to our show regularly, you know him as the biggest advocate for learning in ...
Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market
Meet Adam Broda ๐บ๐ธ! Adam is a tech lead and career coach who helps career changers break into tech. He did the same - after a decade of working in aerospace engineerin...
Effective Living for Better Coding: From Retail to Software Engineering with Scrimba Student Cassie
๐ About the episodeMeet Cassie Lewis ๐บ๐ธ! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in different fields, from ph...
Who's Afraid of AI Agents? The Future of Automation, with Bob Ziroll
๐ About the episodeMeet Bob Ziroll ๐บ๐ธ! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. His latest course is on AI, but don't worr...
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation and How to Make AI Work for You, with Guil Hernandez
๐ About the episodeMeet Guil Hernandez ๐บ๐ธ! He is a developer and educator with over 15 years of experience in tech. He's also a Scrimba teacher who is a part of the te...
Demystifying AI: What Are Foundation Models (and How to Use Them), with Tom Chant
Meet Tom Chant ๐ฌ๐ง! Tom is a Scrimba instructor who is a part of our in-house team that brought you a brand new career path available on Scrimba.com - the AI engineer P...
The Path to Becoming an AI Engineer with Scrimba CEO Per Borgen
๐ About the episodeMeet Per Borgen ๐ณ๐ด! Scrimba's co-founder and CEO returns to the show after more than two years. In this episode, Per and Alex delve into the emergen...
What Is Productivity Anxiety and How to Beat It, with Matt and Eric from Self-Taught Devs Podcast
๐ About the episodeMeet Matt Ehrlich and Eric Winkelspecht ๐ฌ๐ง! They are the hosts of the Self-Taught Devs podcast. And, you guessed it, they are self-taught devs and c...
How to Find Your People and the Work You Find Exciting, with Scrimba Student Anna
๐ About the episodeMeet Anna Ha ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ท! Anna was born in Poland, where she majored in English and minored in Chinese. She then moved to South Korea and set off to learn...
Mastering Corporate Culture for New Developers
๐ About the episodeReady for your first dev job? Today on the podcast, you'll learn how companies work and how teams stay efficient. How does a typical team operate? W...
Nadia Zhuk: Anybody Can Code, and Your Background Doesn't Define You
๐ About the episodeThis is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular interviews. Meet Nadia Zhuk ๐ง๐พ! Nadia made a switch to coding from journalism at the age of 25. Tha...
How Johnny Learned Angular and Typescript in Three Days
๐ About the episodeMeet Johnny Proano ๐บ๐ธ! Johnny had a long and happy career in sales, spanning almost two decades. But, something was missing, so he decided to explor...
Changing Careers? This Is How to Defeat the Sunk Cost Fallacy, with Doctor-turned-developer Shona
๐ About the episodeMeet Shona Chan ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง! Shona was an anesthesiologist. Now, she's a developer. It all started when she wanted to write an app to solve a problem she h...
Learning to Code with ADHD: How Zuza Landed Her First Tech Job after Only Four Months
๐ About the episodeMeet Zuza Groลska ๐ต๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฑ! Zuza is a recently hired new developer with a previous career in social media marketing in the music industry. She's also a ...
It's All about Your Additude: Building a Software Apprenticeship Program with Luke Hovee
๐ About the episodeMeet Luke Hovee ๐บ๐ธ! After a career in the US Army, Luke didn't know what to do next. He was considering a career in construction, until he stumbled ...
Ultimate LinkedIn Guide: Listen to This If Youโre Working on Your LinkedIn Profile
๐ About the episodeNo matter where you are in your career journey - whether you're a new developer just looking to break into the industry or an industry veteran - hav...