Alex Booker
Host of The Scrimba Podcast
Appears in 171 Episodes
How To Figure Out Your Strengths as a Career Changer, With Caitlyn Greffly
Meet Caitlyn Greffly 🇺🇸! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇺🇸! She's a front-end developer and a creator of a coding book club. In this episode, she will teach you how to 
figure out your interests and becom...
From Growing Up as a Coder to an Internship at Microsoft, with Scrimba Student RÃan Errity
Meet RÃan Errity 🇮🇪! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇮🇳! 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 Here’s How To Navigate Them
Meet Hussien Khayoon 🇨🇦! 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 🇺🇸! He's a Scrimba student from Assam, India, who recently got a job at Amazon! 🎉 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇬🇧! 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...
Understanding Corporate Hierarchy (and Perfecting Your Resume), With Tiffany Jachja
Meet Tiffany Jachja 🇺🇸! Tiffany is a data scientist, career coach, engineering manager, and Twitch streamer! By day, she works at Vox Media. In her free time, she help...
Don’t Compare Yourself to Other New Developers: Scrimba Student Silvia on Changing Careers
Meet Silvia Piovesan 🇮🇹! Silvia is a Scrimba student who recently got four job offers after four different interviews. But her success didn't come overnight! Silvia us...
How To Learn To Code From the Free Content on YouTube, With Jessica Chan
Meet Jess Chan 🇺🇸! Jess's YouTube channel, Coder Coder, has almost 400,000 subscribers at the time of recording. She's a web developer turned educator, and when she's ...
Talent Alone Is Not Enough: How Theo Changed Careers at 49 and Landed a Paid Web Dev Apprenticeship
Meet Theo Ntogiakos 🇬🇧! Theo has just switched careers at the age of 49! Recently, he landed a paid apprenticeship and is currently attending a coding bootcamp. But be...
What Are Company Values… and Why You Should Know Your Own, with Dave Mayer
Meet Dave Mayer 🇺🇸! Dave is a founder and CEO of Technical Integrity, a boutique recruiting firm famous for its culture-first approach. TI has worked with big companie...
Take a Chance, Even If Things Sound Weird and You Don't Feel Ready: How Wemerson Learned to Code and Landed a Dream Job in a Web3 Startup
Meet Wemerson Queiroz 🇧🇷! Wemerson never thought he was going to become a developer. He started studying computer science, dropped out, and spent ten years working in ...
How to Create a Web Dev Portfolio That Both HR and Other Developers Will Love, with Josh Comeau
Meet Josh W. Comeau 🇨🇦! Josh is a developer, indie hacker, educator, and author. He worked in some companies you might have heard of (including, but not limited to, Di...
Interview Your Interviewers and Find Somebody Who Believes in Your Skills: How Jonathan Became a Developer in Three Months
Meet Jonathan Gauthier 🇨🇦! Jonathan volunteered when the company where he worked needed somebody to figure out how to turn a Figma design into a website. The rest is h...
