Going from 0 to full-time software engineer in 6 months
summary
Claims going from zero to a full‑time software engineer in nine months, learning nights and weekends and hitting concrete milestones: built a web application from ground up in a few months, used Free Code Camp Hack Reactor and similar bootcamp resources, blog post goes semi‑viral and generates dozens of outreach messages, a support network sustains progress, and the process culminates in securing a full‑time role at Coinbase, showing the path actually works.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00My journey to engineering
- 1:14Keys to success
- 2:55The power of community
- 3:58Supporting new developers
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