Launch School Podcast
Displaying all 9 Episode of Launch School Podcast with the tag “engineering”.
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Capstone 2026 Updates: Adapting to a Changing Market
August 18th, 2025 | Season 5 | 1 hr 2 mins
ai, education, engineering, launch school, software
Launch School has been busy investing in students and AI while adapting to the evolving software engineering landscape. In this episode, we sit down with Chris to discuss what Capstone students can expect in 2026.
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S5E15: Daniel Nalesnik - Founder of HackChinese and Core Graduate
May 27th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 21 mins
career transition, coding, education, engineer, engineering, entrepreneur, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Chris interviews Daniel Nalesnik, the founder of Hack Chinese and core graduate. Daniel used the fundamentals learned in core to go on a build his own business.
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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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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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S5E2: Student Spotlight - ADHD and Parenthood with Benjamin
November 27th, 2023 | Season 5 | 37 mins 34 secs
adhd, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, neurodivergent, parenting, programming, software engineering, tech
In episode two, Brandi interviews Benjamin Walker, a current student juggling parenthood and ADHD after stepping away from a career in education.
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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.