#243 Nikhil Nandagopal cares deeply about the problems we solve
Nikhil placed the start of his journey in high school, where a teacher managed to light the programming flame in his heart. A few years later, Nikhil graduated with a CS degree and joined a startup. H...
7 Mar 202343min
#242 Dean Tribble between innovation and reinventing the wheel
Dean placed the start of his journey in 6th grade, reading science fiction and dreaming of building robots. From there on, in the late 70s, the virus never left him. The rest of the interview was a hi...
28 Feb 202350min
#241 Danny Preussler a GDE who likes having impact
Danny placed the start of his journey in high school when his astronomy class closed, and he had to take computer science instead. We then talked about the German concept of Berufsakademie and how he ...
21 Feb 202343min
#240 Chris Ferdinandi from HR professional to vanillajs-guy
Chris placed the start of his journey during his first career as an HR professional. We first talked about how blogging put software development on his radar and how "interesting" HR experiences slowl...
14 Feb 202347min
#239 Abhimanyu Saxena from novice CS undergrad to entrepreneur
Abhimanyu placed the start of his dev journey as a math undergrad who had not touched a computer before. We talked about how he enrolled in a CS curriculum at university and found himself typing with ...
7 Feb 202344min
#238 Jake Lumetta started and failed many times
Jake placed the start of his journey in middle school, having to learn his way with computers to play video games. From there, we talked about a small hardware review business he started and how follo...
31 Jan 202351min
#237 Laila Bougria is learning, growing and having fun
Laila placed the start of her journey in the hands of her older brothers, who showed a deep interest in seeing her grow and discover her full potential. One of them gave her her first computer and unk...
24 Jan 202346min
#236 Hannah Olukoye is a GDE and an Engineering manager
Hannah placed the start of her journey when her mum brought back a Dell PC from the US. She brushed over her studies and realized that computer science was what she should pursue. We explored how she ...
17 Jan 202348min
