#193 From injured athlete to software engineer with Kaleb Garner
Kaleb Garner is a software engineer working at a medical technology app company. He got a scholarship to play baseball at a state university, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he dropped ...
17 Okt 20251h 13min
#192 Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend
Evan You is the creator of the popular Vue JavaScript library for front end development and the Vite JavaScript build tool that a lot of devs use as a boilerplate for their new projects. He's a self-t...
10 Okt 20251h 20min
#191 From manufacturing worker to first developer job at age 43 with Thomas Gooch
He's a self-taught software engineer who got his first developer job at age 43. He spent decades working in manufacturing while raising his kids, before using freeCodeCamp to learn programming. He was...
3 Okt 202558min
#190 Lone Wolf Dev turned Open Source Super Contributor Tom Mondloch
Tom Mondloch quit programming after he finished community college. After a few years of odd jobs, he decided to get back into programming and discovered freeCodeCamp. He was just learning his own way...
26 Sep 202538min
#189 Learn Chess and Become a Better Developer with Ihechikara Abba (ELO rating of 2285)
On this week's freeCodeCamp podcast we're talking with software engineer Ihechikara Abba, who has a chess ELO rating of 2285, putting him among top competitive chess players. We just published his fre...
19 Sep 202558min
#188 Playing the Developer Job Search Game to Win in 2025 with Danny Thompson & Leon Noel
For this week's interview, we've got a special treat. I'm talking with two legends in the self-taught developer community. Danny Thompson worked for 10 years at a Tennessee gas station, frying chicken...
12 Sep 202556min
#187 How to focus on building your skills when everything's so distracting with Ania Kubów
For this week's interview, I'm talking with Ania Kubów. She's a software engineer and prolific programming teacher on YouTube. She shares tips for: - Getting into game development and using JavaScript...
5 Sep 202557min
#168 How to use AI as an accelerator, not a crutch, with freelance engineer Ankur Tyagi
For this week's interview, I'm talking with Ankur Tyagi. He's a software engineer who's worked at multinational companies like Volvo, Barclays, and Accenture. He grew up in Pune, India and now lives i...
29 Aug 202554min
