Talks & Podcasts
Hard Parts Fireside Chat Podcast
Eric Kirsten - Codesmith Senior Advisor, Filmmaker and founder of Coolspotters & lecturer on entrepreneurship at USC
Eric has a storied history in tech (from exiting during the dot com boom to pioneering social commerce in the 2010s) but his work with Codesmith has focused on mentoring 1000s of graduates on their job search (and responding to calls on weekends and holidays as grads need help negotiating their offers)
Shaundai Person - Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Shaundai is a Senior UI Engineer at Netflix, a keynote speaker (across so many JavaScript, React and tech conferences - including ReactConf and JSConf) and created TypeScript for JavaScript Developers (tsforjs.com)
Victor Luo - ML Engineer at Tiktok, former Software Engineer at Amazon
Codesmith and UVA graduate and founder of ML-enabled calendar/scheduling app and now ML engineer at Tiktok. We talk about what it takes to apply the Codesmith method to learning ML and AI
Brian Holt - Frontend Masters most popular instructor, VP Product SQLite & former Staff & Senior Engineer at Microsoft, Netflix & Reddit
Brian introduced me to FrontendMasters and has been a mentor and supporter since then. He’s one of the earliest engineers at Reddit (introducing React), ran UI engineering at Netflix and led Microsoft, Linkedin and Snowflake engineering teams
Brandi Richardson - Software Engineer & TPM at Google & Microsoft
Codesmith graduate who has mentored 100s post-Codesmith through talks, workshops & programs (partnered with HBCUs). Brandi has built software at Microsoft that’s used in hospitals to support patients at their bedside and throughout has held empathy-driven engineering as her northstar
Cyrus Yari - Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
Codesmith graduate working on zero-to-one projects at Tesla. Founder of rationalVC fund and podcast examining Lindy texts for their timeless insights for modern life
Talks & Podcasts
Hard Parts Series
AI strategy for teams - Unilever Dermalogica global executive team
Hard Parts - Programming (JS ES6 onwards)
How to get Hired as a Software Engineer
Moving forward on immigration reform for entrepreneurs
How to Get Hired as a Programmer
Programming for Non-Programmers
How We Accidentally Created ChatRoulette on JSFiddle
