Launch School Podcast
We found 10 episodes of Launch School Podcast with the tag “tech”.
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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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S5E11: Student Spotlight - From Coasting to Excelling, a Student Transformation with Nick
April 1st, 2024 | Season 5 | 41 mins 37 secs
coding, community, education, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Brandi has a conversation with Nick Perry, a current student, SPOT lead, Smooth Start lead, and an active member of the Launch School community.
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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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S5E9: Student Spotlight - Climbing the Learning Curve as a New Student, with Katelyn
March 4th, 2024 | Season 5 | 40 mins 40 secs
coding, community, education, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this episode, Brandi interviews Katelyn, a current student finding her footing in the first few courses of the core curriculum.
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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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S5E5: Student Spotlight - Imposter Syndrome and Recovering From a 'Not Yet', with Trisha
January 8th, 2024 | Season 5 | 35 mins 28 secs
coding, community, education, imposter syndrome, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Brandi interviews Trisha about receiving a 'Not Yet' on the first assessment in Launch School and how she changed her habits after.
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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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S5E3: Student Resources - The SPOT & GatherTown
December 11th, 2023 | Season 5 | 54 mins 30 secs
coding, community, education, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris has a conversation with JD and Daniel about The SPOT community and GatherTown, two resources available to Launch School students.