Alex Booker
Host of The Scrimba Podcast
Appears in 169 Episodes
Learn to Advocate for Yourself with GitHub Developer Advocate Rizel Scarlett
๐ About the episodeMeet Rizel Scarlett ๐บ๐ธ! Rizel is a Developer Advocate at GitHub. She's also a career changer, software engineer, and community builder! Rizel droppe...
Pre-Interview Nerves Are Just Stage Fright: Learn How to Manage Them With Pianist-Turned-Developer Emre
๐ About the episodeMeet Emre Albayrak ๐น๐ท!ย Emre is a classical pianist from Turkey who decided to change careers, so he trained as a pilot! But then, the pandemic hit....
CodeNewbie Founder Saron Yitbarek: New to Coding? Take Action with These Practical Tips
๐ About the episodeMeet Saron Yitbarek ๐บ๐ธ! Saron is a developer, entrepreneur, community builder, and the founder of CodeNewbie. Saron has been helping new developers ...
How Butcher-Turned-Developer Jamie Got the First Coding Job He Applied For
๐ About the episodeMeet Jamie Baker ๐ฌ๐ง! Jamie is a recently hired new developer who used to be a butcher. Recently, he took the plunge to leave his growing business an...
Tech Layoffs Are Still Happening, and ChatGPT Can Code: How To Stay Ahead of the Curve as a New Developer, With Lane Wagner
๐ About the episodeMeet Lane Wagner ๐บ๐ธ! Lane is an engineering manager and the founder of Boot.dev. In this episode, as an experienced leader and educator, Lane talks ...
Why Finding a Mission Fit Is Important, with Scrimba Student Matheus
๐ About the episodeMeet Matheus Pessoa ๐ง๐ท! Matheus is a recently hired new developer who landed his first junior developer job after only about a year of learning to c...
How Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann Went from Being Self-taught to Bootstrapping a Company
๐ About the episodeMeet Mathias Biilmann ๐ฉ๐ฐ! Matt is CEO and Co-founder of Netlify, a cloud computing company you might have heard of. He's also a self-taught develope...
How to Use Twitter to Beat Your Social Anxiety and Land Your First Job, with Scrimba Student Trecia
Meet Trecia Kat ๐ฟ๐ฆ! Trecia is a new developer from South Africa who originally wanted to work in healthcare. She eventually decided to study IT, but she dropped out of...
How to Get Better at Communication and Teamwork, with Patrick Akil
Meet Patrick Akil ๐ณ๐ฑ! Patrick is a software engineer, Golang trainer, and the host of the Beyond Coding podcast. In this interview, he shares his story of becoming a d...
Reach out to People You Know and You'll Be Surprised: From Comedian to Developer with Scrimba Student Amy
Meet Amy Corson ๐บ๐ธ! Amy is a recently hired new developer. She's also an aspiring comedian! During the pandemic, she realized she was unhappy with her day job and deci...
It's about Who You Know: An Introvert's Guide to Networking (and Becoming Amazing at LinkedIn), with Stephanie Chiu from PayPal
Meet Stephanie Chiu ๐บ๐ธ! Stephanie is a self-taught iOS software engineer and career coach. She's also a chemical engineer who thought she would never code... until she...
Don't Be Afraid to Take Breaks, but Make Sure to Keep Going: Juggling Learning to Code and a Full-time Job with Scrimba Student Marleigh
Meet Marleigh Morgan ๐บ๐ธ! Marleigh is a recently hired graphic designer turned developer. She has always wanted to learn to code, and she tried to study computer scienc...
On Bootcamps, Networking, and Job Hunting During a Recession, with Don the Developer
Meet Don Hansen ๐บ๐ธ! Don is a software engineer and developer coach who helps aspiring juniors land their first opportunity. He's also a Youtuber, podcaster, and stream...
This Scrimba Student Learned Job Interviewing Skills from Podcasts (and Made a Killer Portfolio, Too)
Meet Mislav Markuลกiฤ ๐ญ๐ท! Mislav is a new developer from Croatia who has changed careers at the age of 40. After attending law school and realizing it wasn't a good fit...
How to Fast Track Your Developer Career, with Katy Ashby
Meet Katy Ashby ๐ฌ๐ง! Katy studied physics before becoming a developer, and once she did, she went from a complete novice to a principal developer and team lead in only ...
How to Avoid Burnout, Improve Your Confidence and Keep Coding Fun, with Scrimba Student Sylvia
Meet Sylvialynn Favello ๐บ๐ธ! Sylvia got exposed to coding accidentally: by watching online courses for fun after she took a break from work and studying so that she cou...
Listen to This If You're Working on Your Developer Portfolio, with Alex from TechRally
Meet Alexander Lee ๐บ๐ธ! Alexander, also known as TechRally, is a front-end engineer at Amazon. He's also a developer coach, Youtuber, and career changer. In this episod...
Code Like Nobody Is Watching: On Community, Learning, and Finding the Right Culture Fit, With Scrimba Student James
Meet James Marriott ๐ฌ๐ง! He's a software developer and a career changer who previously worked in education, project management, and communications. He devoted himself t...
How To Figure Out Your Strengths as a Career Changer, With Caitlyn Greffly
Meet Caitlyn Greffly ๐บ๐ธ! She's a career changer, developer career mentor, and the author of The Bootamper's Companion, a book of tips she wishes she had known when she...
Hired by Coca Cola! How Michael Learned Coding on Work Breaks and Changed Careers at 51
Meet Michael Robards ๐บ๐ธ! Michael is a career changer whose path to becoming a developer was a long and winding one: he was a business analyst and a personal trainer; h...
Homeschooler, College Dropout, Developer and Master Networker: Crush Your Career with Madison Kanna
Meet Madison Kanna ๐บ๐ธ! She's a front-end developer and a creator of a coding book club. In this episode, she will teach you how to โจfigure out your interests and becom...
From Growing Up as a Coder to an Internship at Microsoft, with Scrimba Student Rรญan Errity
Meet Rรญan Errity ๐ฎ๐ช! He's a Scrimba student who started learning to code as a child. Today, he studies Computer Science and Language, a study program that marries his ...
How To Be Strategic About Your Learning and Career, With Mike Chen
Meet Mike Chen ๐บ๐ธ! Mike is a self-taught developer who worked at Yahoo, Google, and Airbnb, before becoming a CTO and co-founder of Motivo. Nowadays, he also helps oth...
How This Junior Developer Tripled Their Salary Within One Year of Getting Hired
Meet Vikas Jyani ๐ฎ๐ณ! He studied fine arts before discovering coding and realizing that web development is what can combine his eye for design and interest in tech.
Bootcamp Mentor Hussien Khayoon: Careers Come in Three Phases and Hereโs How To Navigate Them
Meet Hussien Khayoon ๐จ๐ฆ! Hussien is a Full-stack engineer with almost a decade of experience. Currently, he works as a Staff Software Engineer at Shopify. He is also a...
Consistent and Persistent: This Scrimba Student Battled Depression and Landed a Job at Amazon After 1000 LeetCode Challenges
Meet Khaidem Sandip Singha ๐บ๐ธ! He's a Scrimba student from Assam, India, who recently got a job at Amazon! ๐ Originally, he studied civil engineering before realizing ...
A Teacher's Job Is Never Done: Get Your Hands on the Keyboard with Bob Ziroll
Meet Bob Ziroll ๐บ๐ธ! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. In a past life, Bob worked in marketing before enrolling into...
How Pastor-Turned-Developer Chris Crushed It on LinkedIn and Landed an Internship... and a Job
Meet Chris McCoy ๐บ๐ธ! He's a pastor who did odd jobs on the side. But he was always interested in coding! Somewhere between working retail and doing food delivery, he r...
Quincy Larson: Why Learning To Code as an Adult Might Be Easier Than You Think
Meet Quincy Larson ๐บ๐ธ! Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a nonprofit company that makes coding accessible for all. He is a self-taught developer who used to be a ...
Drumroll, Please: Make Your Portfolio Projects Fun and Prepare for the Following Questions
Meet Stevie Gill ๐ฌ๐ง! Stevie was a scientist, a medical writer and an editor, and then he wrote about video games. Eventually, he moved countries and changed careers. N...
