Chris Lee
Co-Host of Launch School Podcast
Chris started his career in 2002 as a software engineer at IBM working on large enterprise software. He started working with Ruby in 2007 consulting and coding for several startups. Later, he founded his own startup, a video interviewing platform for recruiters and hiring managers. Chris has also been a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting in its Salesforce practice as a SME (subject matter expert) for Ruby, Heroku and iOS development. Prior to Launch School, Chris was the engineering manager and technical lead in a VC backed startup in San Francisco.
In all, Chris has over 16 years of software engineering, consulting, and various leadership experience. His work experience has ranged from Fortune 100 companies to startups and small businesses. When he's not programming, he enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his wife and poodle.
Chris Lee has hosted 39 Episodes.
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Meet a Student: Jay Shenk
April 1st, 2017 | Season 1 | 29 mins 4 secs
In this episode, Jay Shenk talks about changing career goals from an aspiring clarinetist to a programmer and how he applies what he learned as a trained musician to programming. Jay’s been at Launch School for around a year and shares some advice...
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Meet a Student: Terry Lee
March 14th, 2017 | Season 1 | 26 mins 1 sec
Terry Lee came on the podcast today to talk about her experience so far at Launch School. Terry has been at Launch School for about a year and has aced every assessment so far. She talks about her previous career as a product manager, getting laid...
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Meet a Student: Naveed Fida
February 27th, 2017 | Season 1 | 37 mins 7 secs
Naveed is has been learning at Launch School for around a year and has been an outstanding student so far. He's nearing the end of the curriculum and stopped by the podcast today to share his story. We talked about the unique challenges of...
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Meet a Student: Darren Burgess
February 13th, 2017 | Season 1 | 33 mins 27 secs
Darren Burgess stopped by the podcast to talk about his experience at Launch School. Before starting at Launch School, he spent many years as a Filemaker Pro developer and even attended a different coding “bootcamp”. We talked about the learning...
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Meet a Student: Rachel Minto
January 24th, 2017 | Season 1 | 30 mins 38 secs
Rachel is currently in the "Advanced" phase of the program, having completed all back end and front end courses. She stopped by to share her experience so far at Launch School. We talked about: her art and philosophy background and how that's...
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Meet a Student: Tommy Caruso
January 9th, 2017 | Season 1 | 47 mins 9 secs
In this interview, Tommy Caruso shares with us his strategy of balancing a family, kids, finishing up his Computer Science degree, and Launch School all at the same time. Oh, and he’s also interning in his spare time. We had a great time chatting...
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Meet a Student: Karl Lingiah
January 4th, 2017 | Season 1 | 35 mins 35 secs
One of our students, Karl Lingiah, took time to answer some questions and talk about his journey so far at Launch School. He shares his ideas on learning in general, and specifically what his experience has been so far at Launch School. Note: we had a...