PJ Metz: From Teacher to Coder
We Belong Here: Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech
English - November 30, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsTechnology Education tech path computer science journey coding developer code development coder Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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 Codecademy during the pandemic.
He’s a passionate public speaker and has spoken at a Microsoft conference as well as hosted several meetups and other events representing GitLab. You can catch him on Twitch building a website about poetry or building his next pop-star-based Twitter bot.
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