The freeCodeCamp Podcast
1) #202 How to get promoted as a dev without becoming a manager – Staff Engineer Santosh Yadav interview
Today Quincy Larson interviews Santosh Yadav. The son of a textile worker, he grew up inner-city Mumbai and studied hard to get into university. From there he's worked as a software engineer for 16 ye...Show More
2) #201 The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf
Today Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He's a college dropout who taught himself programming while building websites for his emo band. 22 years later he's worked as a developer at IBM, Netlif...Show More
3) #200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha
Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he perseve...Show More
#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha
1:08:48 | Dec 5th, 2025
4) #199 Advice from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths
Today Quincy Larson interviews Andrea Griffiths, who taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp while working in construction. She moved to the US from Colombia when she was 17, and within 6 months...Show More
5) #198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co
Today Quincy Larson interviews Alison Co and Cindy Cui, two university students who won the NW Hacks hackathon with their tool that helps people who are losing their vision learn to read Braille. He m...Show More
#198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co
1:03:35 | Nov 21st, 2025
6) #197 Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should take your time learning programming
Dr. David J. Malan teaches computer science at Harvard. Over the past decade, millions of people have taken his CS50 course both in person and online. He joins us to talk about: 1. Why he still recomm...Show More
#197 Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should take your time learning programming
1:17:06 | Nov 14th, 2025
7) #196 Applying into the void with recruiter admin Abbey Perini
Abbey Perini taught herself programming at age 27 while working as an admin at an engineering recruitment agency. She has worked extensively with large legacy codebases and taught best practices to de...Show More
8) #195 He Turned Down a FAANG Dev Job to Keep Working Remotely with Patrick Hartley
Patrick Hartley is a self-taught developer with nearly a decade of software engineering experience. When he was 21 he had to dropped out of college to provide for his family. He taught himself program...Show More
#195 He Turned Down a FAANG Dev Job to Keep Working Remotely with Patrick Hartley
50:49 | Oct 31st, 2025
9) #194 First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson
Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal ar...Show More
#194 First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson
1:10:52 | Oct 24th, 2025
10) #193 From injured athlete to software engineer with Kaleb Garner
Kaleb Garner is a software engineer working at a medical technology app company. He got a scholarship to play baseball at a state university, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he dropped ...Show More