#235 Jean-Philippe LeBlanc from truck driver to engineering organisations builder
Jean-Philippe pinpointed the start of his journey at age 11 when his mother placed the family computer in his bedroom. JP talked about his childhood, discovering coding, and the internet, being an exc...
10 Jan 202349min
#234 Dustin DeVries aligning career and life phases
Dustin placed the start of his journey somewhere between the age of 7 and 18... or 16... with a C64 or a TRS-80. Fast forward a few years, he spoke of enrolling in a computer engineering curriculum to...
3 Jan 202349min
#233 Oshri Cohen self taught fractional CTO
Oshri placed the start of his journey at the age of 13 when he got his first computer and started being an online vigilante. Fast forward a few years, he was out of high school, searching for a job as...
20 Dec 202252min
#232 Kevin Trethewey on his extreme programming journey
Kevin started his story in the 80 & the 90s but quickly said, "Coding found me more than I found it." We then discussed his (very early) Bootcamp and how he went from one job to the next, slowly feeli...
13 Dec 202246min
#231 Amy Wallhermfechtel went from hippie, teacher and historian to software engineer
Amy took us on a wild ride, made of embracing crazy adventures by fear of failure. We talked about her time as a hippie in a commune, her time in academia, and during her Ph.D., we spoke about transfe...
6 Dec 202246min
#230 Melanie Sumner from psychology and the Navy to webdev and accessibility
Melanie's love for web development started in 1997 (not with Dreamweaver) and followed her to 2022, where she is pushing the state of Accessibility. We brushed over her childhood, spoke about her time...
29 Nov 202252min
#229 Bill Boulden from ideas to product as a fractional CTO
Bill placed the start of their journey at three different places. In their childhood, thanks to a geeky dad. Then right after college when they started working as a web developer. And finally, in 2020...
22 Nov 202245min
#228 Jennifer Wong was not impressed by the civil engineering pace
Jenn first took us back in her studies, discovering FORTRAN and MATLAB and hating every minute of it. Fast forward a few years, she found she was missing the visual aspect of programming, and as soon ...
15 Nov 202247min
