Alex Booker
Host of The Scrimba Podcast
Appears in 170 Episodes
Why Open Source Can Be the Perfect Place for New Developers โ and How to Get Started, with Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation
Meet Deb Goodkin! Deb is the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation. The Foundation supports the FreeBSD project and community. FreeBSD is a powerful open-source...
Tangible Benefits: Why AI Is Here to Stay and How New Developers Can Find the Right Balance, with Sam Julien from Writer
Meet Sam Julien ๐บ๐ธ! Sam is a director of Developer Relations at Writer, a teacher, and the author of Getting Started in Developer Relations. He loves helping people le...
Learn to Advocate for Yourself with Developer Advocate Rizel Scarlett
Meet Rizel Scarlett ๐บ๐ธ! Rizel is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD. She's also a career changer, software engineer, and community builder!Rizel dropped out of psycholo...
Career Progression Decoded: Angie Jones' Expert Tips for Entering the Tech Industry and Forging Your Unique Path
Meet Angie Jones ๐บ๐ธ! Angie is a veteran software developer currently working as a global Developer Relations executive at TBD. Before that, she worked as an automation...
Scrimba v2 is Here! Create Your Own Scrims, Use the Advanced Code Editor, and Learn Coding the Right Way, with Per Borgen
Scrimba v2 is here! And you probably already know this if you've visited our website recently. Scrimba cofounder and CEO Per Borgen ๐ณ๐ด is joining us to reveal what thi...
The Four Stages of Interviewing: How to Conquer the Hiring Process Step by Step, with Ryan Talbert
Meet Ryan Talbert ๐บ๐ธ! Ryan studied entrepreneurship and had an idea for an app. To build it, he hired a developer who scammed him and used his server for phishing! But...
What's New in React 19 (and What That Means for You), with Dev Agrawal
Meet Dev Agrawal ๐ฎ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ! Dev is a software developer, developer advocate, content creator, and A React expert deeply ingrained in the React community. The last time he w...
The Secret to a Meaningful Portfolio: Solve a Real-world Problem, with Scrimba Student Kevin
Meet Kevin Tanzyl! Originally from New Zealand, Kevin moved to Japan to become an English teacher. But after a while, he felt like he hit a plateau. Kevin then tried c...
"No" Is Always Guaranteed... So Strive for a "Yes", with the Coding Mermaid Monica Fidalgo
Meet Monica Fidalgo ๐ต๐น! Monica is a front-end product engineer at Cloudflare, an advocate for new developers and women in tech, as well as a teacher, mentor, and resum...
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Shaundai Person: Here's How to Sell Yourself (and Believe in the Product ๐)
Meet Shaundai Person ๐บ๐ธ! Shaundai is a senior software engineer at Netflix, but she hasn't always been a coder. She studied entrepreneurship and had a long, successful...
Creator of #100DaysOfCode, Alex Kallaway: Here's How to Embrace Discomfort for Growth
Meetย Alex Kallaway ๐ท๐บ๐จ๐ฆ! Alex is a Lead Full-Stack Developer, but he hasn't always been a coder. First, he was a violinist; then, he was interested in having a busine...
What to Do If Nobody's Hiring (and How to Slide Into Their DMs When They Do), with Rachel Nabors
Meetย Rachel Lee Nabors ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง! They are an award-winning cartoonist who transitioned to become a developer with a passion for teaching the world how to code. Rachel has...
This is How Companies Think About Hiring, with Dominik Piฤ tek
Meet Dominik Piฤ tek ๐ต๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ง! Dominik moved to the UK from Poland in search of career opportunities. He worked odd jobs, acquired a varied set of skills, and became a part...
The Safe Exit: How to Quit Your Job the Right Way, with Ian Douglas
Meet Ian Douglas ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ! Developer, DevRel, Tech Educator, Career Coach, and author of The Tech Interview Guide, Ian Douglas, has been coding professionally since 1996. ...
Early WhatsApp Engineer Jean Lee: Keep Trying New Things in Tech!
Meet Jean Lee! She was the nineteenth engineer at WhatsApp (that was even before it got acquired by Facebook!) and then worked at Meta as an engineering manager for si...
How Not to Be Afraid of Git, with O'Reilly Author Anna Skoulikari
โจUse this link for a free month of O'Reilly Learning and read Anna's book and any other resource on the platform! โจ Meet Anna Skoulikari! She's a UX designer turned fr...
The (Not so) Hidden Benefits of Talking about Code, with Scrimba Bootcamp Lead Micha
โจUse this link for a 20% discount on the Scrimba bootcamp! โจ Meet Michaella Rodriguez! If you're already in the Scrimba Discord community, you probably know her. If no...
Neurodiversity in Tech and Why We Should Care About It, with Parul Singh
Meet Parul Singh ๐ฌ๐ง! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruit...
The Only Thing Worth Investing in Is Yourself, with Scrimba Student รzge
Meet รzge Ahras ๐น๐ท! รzge studied computer enigneering, but felt her coding skills weren't up to par. She yearned to transition into frontend development and explore cu...
How to Figure Out What You Want to Do, with Scrimba Student Amy
Meet Amy Posten ๐บ๐ธ! Amy was a veterinary technician for fifteen years before she decided to switch careers. First, she discovered freeCodeCamp while on maternity leave...
Slow Down to Speed Up: Teacher-Turned-Developer Chris on Successful Adult Learning and Landing his Dream Role
Meet Chris Webster ๐ฌ๐ง! Chris is a full-stack developer based in Reading. In a past life, he taught Mandarin to both children and adults and obtained a master's degree ...
The State of React (and Should You Still Learn It in 2024), with Dev Agrawal
Meet Dev Agrawal ๐ฎ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ! With a name like that, how could he not become a developer? He's a software developer, developer advocate, and content creator. Moreover, he's a...
Everybody's Doing Their Best... Even Tech Recruiters (and This Is How to Get Their Attention), with Parul Singh
Meet Parul Singh ๐ฌ๐ง! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruit...
The Making of an Industry: The Rise of AI Engineering, with Swyx
Meet Shawn Wang (Swyx) ๐บ๐ธ! Swyx is a developer, writer, and startup advisor. If you listen to our show regularly, you know him as the biggest advocate for learning in ...
Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market
Meet Adam Broda ๐บ๐ธ! Adam is a tech lead and career coach who helps career changers break into tech. He did the same - after a decade of working in aerospace engineerin...
Effective Living for Better Coding: From Retail to Software Engineering with Scrimba Student Cassie
๐ About the episodeMeet Cassie Lewis ๐บ๐ธ! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in different fields, from ph...
Who's Afraid of AI Agents? The Future of Automation, with Bob Ziroll
๐ About the episodeMeet Bob Ziroll ๐บ๐ธ! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. His latest course is on AI, but don't worr...
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation and How to Make AI Work for You, with Guil Hernandez
๐ About the episodeMeet Guil Hernandez ๐บ๐ธ! He is a developer and educator with over 15 years of experience in tech. He's also a Scrimba teacher who is a part of the te...
Demystifying AI: What Are Foundation Models (and How to Use Them), with Tom Chant
Meet Tom Chant ๐ฌ๐ง! Tom is a Scrimba instructor who is a part of our in-house team that brought you a brand new career path available on Scrimba.com - the AI engineer P...
The Path to Becoming an AI Engineer with Scrimba CEO Per Borgen
๐ About the episodeMeet Per Borgen ๐ณ๐ด! Scrimba's co-founder and CEO returns to the show after more than two years. In this episode, Per and Alex delve into the emergen...
