Zsófi Major has had many roles over the years within the web2 space: project manager, COO, and business developer. After business hours she volunteered within the Drupal community, bringing together developers from all over the world at confere

Sustainability and Blockchain with Alexandra Heller

Dec 29th, 2022 51m 30s

Alexandra Heller is the Founder of Crypto Philanthropy Club, a club for crypto people who care and give, and is the Marketing Director at Bitgreen, the sustainability blockchain.Her life’s quest is to help the helpers and spread the ideas the w

Introducing, We Belong... in Web3!

Oct 24th, 2022 25m 44s

We Belong is back!We're (Lauren and Aaron ) talking about what we've been up to since the last episode - including new jobs in Web3 AND an incredibly adorable new member of our family.This episode kicks off a new season of We Belong and it's al

A Bootcamper's Companion by Caitlyn Greffly

Feb 22nd, 2022 25m 26s

Caitlyn joins Lauren to talk about her new book, The Bootcamper’s Companion. If you're trying to break into tech, you probably already know it's a huge and complicated world. Maybe you're thinking about a career change, currently enrolled in a

Caroline Kerns: How Dabbling in Careers Led to Community and #DevRel

Jan 17th, 2022 47m 4s

Caroline is originally from Germany and has tried many different careers on for size. She has had roles ranging from recruiting, automotive, and retail and her interest in programming began a few years ago with a desire to create a Jane Austen

Shamira Marshall: From Attorney to Software Developer

Dec 14th, 2021 37m 7s

Shamira Marshall is an attorney who learned to code in 2019 and today is a software engineer at GoDaddy. Her interest in tech started in law school and then attended Ada Developers Academy to make the career switch. Which is where she and I met

PJ Metz: From Teacher to Coder

Nov 30th, 2021 51m 30s

My guest today is a former educator who now works as an Education Evangelist at GitLab. After teaching English for 11 years in Florida and South Korea, he made the transition into tech in May of 2021 after teaching himself to code with Codecade

Tonya Sims: From WNBA to Python and DevRel

Nov 2nd, 2021 32m 14s

Tonya Sims is a self-taught developer and is the Python Developer Advocate at Vonage. She has an eclectic background ranging from roles in business, pharmaceutical sales, and even is a former professional women’s basketball player! Tonya is hum

Allen Whearry: Don't sell yourself short, you can code

Aug 30th, 2021 51m 6s

Allen is a self-taught iOS Developer who made the switch from a professional sales career and now sits as a software engineer at Yelp. He believes anyone can learn to program, they just have to put in the time and effort.He studied psychology i

Alex Merced: Learn, Build, Blog, Teach, Repeat!

Aug 24th, 2021 33m 53s

Alex Merced taught himself to code just a few years ago. Before that, he spent a decade training people in finance and has also moonlighted as a political candidate, concert promoter, and comic book store owner.Today, he’s a developer for Campu

Wesley Faulkner: The Path to Developer Relations

Aug 16th, 2021 42m 11s

Wesley Faulkner is a first-generation American. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and ran for Austin City Council in 2016. His professional experience also includes work as a social media and community man

Sierra OBryan: From Lasers to Androids

Aug 10th, 2021 28m

Sierra is a Senior Consultant at Atomic Robot in Cincinnati, OH, focused primarily on Native Android solutions. She loves building beautiful and accessible Android apps, sharing knowledge with the community, and mentoring aspiring mobile develo

Domitrius Clark: Always Putting the Customer First

Aug 3rd, 2021 58m 12s

Domitrius is a Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary. From retail to engineering, his focus has always been on making sure the customer's experience is the top priority. He’s the founder of Reactadelphia, a Philly meetup for React & JavaS

Chris Ferdinandi: How to Hack your Job Hunt

Jul 25th, 2021 44m 40s

Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday which you can check out at GoMak

Mindy Zwanziger: From Teacher to Coder

Jul 20th, 2021 39m 4s

Mindy is a math teacher turned software engineer with the goal of supporting folks entering the tech field. She had wanted to be a teacher ever since she was a little girl but after teaching middle and high school for a few years, she decided i

Yechiel Kalmenson: Torah && Tech

Jul 15th, 2021 24m 38s

Yechiel Kalmenson is a rabbi and teacher who pivoted to engineering three years ago. After serving as a rabbi and elementary teacher for a few years, Yechiel faced a crossroads and needed to pivot careers. He started working in technical suppor

Cecelia Martinez: Know your Story and Share your Passion

Jul 9th, 2021 32m 51s

Before learning to code, Cecelia worked in journalism and financial services. She always had a hobby of making WordPress websites for friends but never thought of pursuing tech professionally. But after moving to Atlanta, meeting a few bootcamp

Ceora Ford: Learn in Public and Share your Journey

Jun 29th, 2021 48m

Ceora is a software developer based in Philadelphia. She worked in childcare and with children but was always interested in tech. Coding was always in the back of her mind. She starting freelancing as a digital marketer and was finding success,

Kenneth Cassel: A QuikTrip Journey to Code

Jun 23rd, 2021 35m 14s

Kenneth is played the saxophone in school and always wanted to be a high school band director. But soon he discovered that while he was passionate about music, it wasn’t exactly the career for him. In college, Kenneth worked at a QuikTrip gas s

Claudia Maciel: Conquering Clouds from Aviation and iOS Development

Jun 8th, 2021 28m 47s

Claudia Maciel grew up in a small farming community in California and had dreams of exploring the world. She went to college full of enthusiasm and curiosity - eager to discover what she was most passionate and interested in. In her first year,

Dan Morse: It’s Never Too Late to Learn to Code

Jun 1st, 2021 32m 34s

Dan worked as a freelance sign language interpreter for nearly two decades. He has always had an affinity for visual learning and languages in particular. And in high school, he remembers observing that sign language itself was a visual languag

Jess Bonanno: Rooting for the UnderDog

May 22nd, 2021 31m 5s

Jess Bonanno grew up in Brooklyn and moved to NJ during high school. She has always been obsessed with tech and planned to study it after high school but began getting herself into trouble.She thought she had missed her chance to make tech a c

Filip Hric: The Value of Learning in Public

Apr 27th, 2021 42m 30s

Filip Hric always loved playing with and tinkering with tech. But growing up, he struggled with math and thus convinced himself that he didn’t belong in the world of tech. So instead, he decided to study Psychology and ended up even getting a M

Tali Herzka: From Molecular Biology to Software Engineering

Apr 13th, 2021 52m 42s

On today’s episode, I chat with Tali Herzka. Who has forever been interested in Science, genetics, and Molecular Biology. Molecular pathways and systems seemed to connect with the way she understood the world.After getting a bachelor’s degree i

Kilo Loco: Self Taught Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS

Mar 17th, 2021 35m 54s

On today’s episode, I chat with Kilo Loco, aka Kyle Lee. Who is a self-taught developer, programming tutorial YouTuber, and Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. Kilo officially entered tech in 2016. Prior to that, he worked in many different indus