Launch School Podcast
Displaying all 8 Episode of Launch School Podcast with the tag “capstone”.
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S5E12: Missy Lovegren - From Fine Arts to Software Engineering
April 15th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 20 mins
capstone, career transition, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Chris interviews Missy Lovegren, a Capstone grad and software engineer at New Relic. Missy was a TA at Launch School and part of a 2022 Capstone cohort.
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S5E10: Felicia Bacon - A Lifelong Learner Thriving at Starbucks
March 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 26 mins
capstone, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Chris has a conversation with Felicia Bacon, a Capstone grad and Software Engineer at Starbucks.
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S5E8: Alex Strick van Linschoten - Open Source Machine Learning, based in Europe
February 19th, 2024 | Season 5 | 55 mins 33 secs
capstone, coding, education, engineer, engineering, europe, launch school, machine learning, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Chris interviews Alex, a Capstone grad who became interested in machine learning and came to Launch School after over 15 years of history research in Afghanistan. He's now a machine learning engineer at ZenML.
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S5E7: Launch School Explained with Chris Lee
February 5th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 23 mins
capstone, coding, education, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Chris begins by telling the story of his journey into teaching software and how it led to Launch School in its current form. He then answers the most frequently asked questions from both current and potential students.
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S5E6: Julia Martin - The Journey from JS101 to Databricks
January 22nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 52 mins 24 secs
capstone, coding, data, databricks, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris interviews Julia Martin, a Capstone graduate and software engineer working at Databricks. She shares her journey from quitting her job to study at Launch School full-time, to her day-to-day now at a large tech company.
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S5E4: Jon Kulton - From Software Engineering to SRE
December 25th, 2023 | Season 5 | 57 mins 59 secs
capstone, coding, data, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris interviews Jon Kulton in this episode. Jon completed Capstone at the end of 2019 and landed his first role during the beginning of the COVID pandemic. He has since transitioned to working for Datadog, a public company that provides monitoring and security services for cloud applications.
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S5E1: Ginni Pinckert - Ancient Greek to AI
November 13th, 2023 | Season 5 | 1 hr 8 mins
ai, capstone, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris and Ginni chat about Ginni's experiences through Launch School and Capstone, as well as how her new job as a software engineer at Sudowrite is going.
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S4E8: Capstone Salary Reflections
December 19th, 2022 | Season 4 | 27 mins 51 secs
capstone, launch school, programming, salaries, software engineer
In this episode Chris and Karis discuss the latest Capstone Salaries page update. Chris shares important data to look out for on the new salaries page, and provides advice when comparing other career-launching programs out there on the market. This discussion is to be used as a companion guide to the salaries page, and is especially helpful for those looking to have more clarity on Capstone. The episode finishes with some announcements and upcoming events.