TRENDS

From School Director to Coding Educator: How Quincy Larson Built the World’s Largest Free Programming Platform Quincy Larson started freeCodeCamp in a closet. Not a fancy home office. A literal closet in his San Francisco Bay Area apartment. He was 31 years old. He worked as a school director. He

From Construction Sites to Cybersecurity: Frederick Waters’ Career Transformation Frederick Waters spent years showing up to construction sites at 5 a.m. in freezing weather. He made good money. But he was miserable. Today, he works as a Cybersecurity Testing Assurance Analyst protecting critical national infrastructure. The shift took 18 months

From English Major to SaaS Exit: What Self-Taught Programmer Chris Tung Teaches Aspiring Developers Chris Tung went from changing background colors on his blog to selling his own SaaS product for five figures. He did this with an English degree, a full-time marketing career, and zero computer science background. His

From the War Zone to the Supercomputer: The Story of Philip Emeagwali In the late 1980s, the computing world focused on building singular processors with massive power. A Nigerian mathematician named Philip Emeagwali looked at a beehive and saw something different. He saw the future of supercomputing. His journey from

From Forensic Computing to Leading Adversary Tactics: Jamie Levy’s Path to Cybersecurity Leadership Jamie Levy stands out in cybersecurity. She’s the Director of Adversary Tactics at Huntress Labs today. She got there without following the traditional computer science degree to junior developer pipeline. Her path shows you something important. Specialized

From Grocery Clerk to Government Software Engineer: How Lina Sachuk Rewrote Her American Dream Lina Sachuk’s story starts like most immigrant stories. Survival first. Ambition later. She came from Ukraine with degrees she couldn’t use. She faced the challenge every immigrant knows: starting over. Her days split between multiple jobs.