freeCodeCamp Podcast

freeCodeCamp Podcast


Latest Episodes

#145 Open Source Superstar and Roadmap.sh Founder Kamran Ahmed
October 11, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kamran Ahmed. He's a software engineer and founder of Roadmap.sh, which has skill tree roadmaps for lots of develop

#144 How to Become a Street Smart Developer – From Dropout to Selling his Company w/ Dennis Ivy
October 04, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dennis Ivy, a software engineer and prolific freelancer. He dropped out of college at 18 and taught himself how to

#143 The reality of the developer job market with ex-Googler YK Sugi
September 27, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews YK Sugi. He's a software engineer and prolific YouTube Computer Science tutorial creator. He's worked at Google and

#142 From PhD drop-out to Google Data Scientist with Megan Risdal
September 20, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Meg Risdal. She's a data scientist and Product Manager at Kaggle, Google's Data Science competition platform. Mega

#141 Lessons from freelancing for dozens of startups with Eddie Jaoude
September 13, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Eddie Jaoude who is a software engineer and open source creator. He's worked more than 15 years as a developer ever

#140 Surviving 40 years in the software industry with Jack Herrington the Blue Collar Coder
September 06, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jack Herrington. As a kid he had to work to overcome Dyslexia and didn't have good enough grades to get into colleg

#139 Spotify Developer Emma Bostian Talks Coding, Hiring Devs, and European Work Culture
August 30, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Emma Bostian. She's a software engineer turned manager at Spotify and Prolific coding teacher. We talk about: - How

#138 From Brain Tumor to Teaching 500,000 Sysadmin Students with Hiroko Nishimura
August 23, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Hiroko Nishimura. She's a special ed teacher turned system administrator turned technical instructor. Hiroko grew

#137 Rahul Pandey quit his $800,000/year FAANG developer job to build a startup
August 16, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Rahul Pandey. He's a software engineer who left his $800K / year FAANG job to build his own startup. We talk about:

#136 Developer and inventor with 27 software patents – Angie Jones Interview
August 09, 2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Angie Jones. She's a developer and holder of 27 software patents. She's worked at companies like IBM and Twitter, d