Boba Talk
Sonny Li and Ellie Popoca demystify the world of coding and the tech industry over some bubble tea. Sometimes, they bring on amazing guests to drink boba with them. 🫶
Episodes
‼️ We hosted a CS Panel in the Codédex Discord server ‼️
Curious about landing internships and full-time offers in big tech and banks, tips for post-grad, impact of AI in computer science, & how to navigate the job market in this economy?! 🤔
Learn from two recent grads and a CS student:
- 👩💻 Yna Pangilinan, Data Science Intern @ TD Bank
- 🧑💻 Santiago Carena, Software Engineer @ Microsoft
- 👩💻 Emma Tung, Software Eng...
What does it take to go from coding your first “Hello World” in a college CS class to becoming a founding engineer at one of the hottest upcoming NYC consumer startup? In this episode of Boba Talk, Ellie sits down (in the Codédex office!) with Tyrus Yeo, a University of Michigan grad who left Hong Kong, dove headfirst into Computer Science, and carved his own path into the bubble of tech startups.
They talk about the importance of t...
The first episode recorded LIVE on the new Boba Talk couch! 🛋️
Victoria Kirst, better known online as vrk, is a tech veteran (former VP of Engineering at Glitch, Tech Lead @ Google, Software Engineer @ The Browser Company) based in Brooklyn, NY. She's currently on a 2-year sabbatical exploring her love of paper through Pouch, her indie magazine, and her email newsletter.
In this episode, Ellie sits down with Victoria to...
Jenn Schiffer is back! Jenn was the Director of Community at Glitch (acquired by Fastly) for seven years before taking a well-earned break. A beloved figure in the tech space for over a decade, Jenn has inspired countless developers and creatives with her work.
She shared her incredible journey – from working at Outback Steakhouse and taking apart computers in South Brooklyn, to studying computer science and teaching at Montlair Sta...
This episode is a live recording from the Hacker House fireside chat on February 5th, 2025, in the Codédex community, kicking off our “Roast My Resume” February Monthly Challenge. 🔥
We invited Jovanay Carter, Co-Founder of The Dev Difference & ex-Google Technical Recruiter (and former coworker!), who’s reviewed over 20,000+ resumes in her career. She shares insider tips on crafting standout resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles...
This episode is a live recording from the Hacker House fireside chat on December 14th, 2024, in the Codédex community during the Mini Holiday Hackathon. ❄️
We invited Steve Chen, Founder and Executive Director at Code & Coffee, to share his non-traditional path to tech — from growing up as a restaurant kid in the DC metro area, dropping out of college, and working as a food delivery driver, to joining a coding bootcamp in Flori...
This episode is a live recording from a virtual Hacker House event on November 21st, 2024, in the Codédex community. 🏡
We invited our good friend and neighbor, Catherine Zhou, aka Cat, ex-Head of Data at Twitter and BeReal during these companies most pivotal years, to discuss her colorful career journey from working minimum wage at a gym and as a bike mechanic, all the way to JetBlue, Twitter, and BeReal. Cat shares her unique ins...
In this episode, we sit down with Jamie Rollison, a senior at UIUC studying Computer Science, to discuss her unique journey from linguistics to Android development and how she landed internships at Intuit (fun story here!) and Stripe. Jamie shares insights on following her passions, building web and mobile apps at Hack4Impact, balancing college life, the cheating/grind culture, and navigating the competitive tech landscape. Whether...
Codédex partnered with GitHub Education! 🙌 For this special episode, we invited Juan Pablo Flores, aka Juan Pa, Senior Program Manager at GitHub based in Seattle on the pod. Juan shared his origin story in this episode, from writing Java scripts (you read that right) on RuneScape, MapleStory, and FarmVille to organizing hackathons in Mexico City for Major League Hacking to finally moving to Seattle for GitHub. We discussed college...
This episode was recorded during our team offsite in Barcelona, Spain, where we did an AMA via Instagram Live on January 11th, 2024 in our Airbnb living room.
It features all of our core team members:
- Sonny: Founder & Chief Vibes Officer
- Asiqur: Software Engineer
- Dharma: Software Engineer
- Brandon: Curriculum Lead
- Lillian: Head of Operations
In this episode, a live audience asked us 13 questions ranging from ...
We caught up with a friend on the pod! ✨ Josh Goldberg is an open-source maintainer in the TypeScript ecosystem based in Philly. In this episode, Josh shared his coding journey, from playing Halo and studying Computer Science to building the viral Full Screen Mario game in 2013 (and getting it taken down by Nintendo after hitting 2.68m unique visitors), moving to Seattle for Microsoft and transitioning to a full-time open-source de...
12k students apply to NASA Glenn internships each year, and only 162 are selected. We sat down with two of them – Brandon Lam, a rising junior at the University of Minnesota studying Computer Science, and Asma Ahmed, a recent University of Central Florida graduate with a bachelor’s in Information Technology. We discussed how to land your first tech internship, the full stack at NASA internships (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Node.j...
Sonny and Lillian met up with Miracle Awonuga, a recent graduate from Belmont University’s data science program (the first black woman to do so), founding member of WaffleHacks, and a project author at Codédex. We nerded out on Data Science and discussed Miracle's coding journey (from "crying over too many Programming I tests" to transitioning to Data Science), Python vs. R, the origins of WaffleHacks, advice for fres...
Welcome to Boba Talk: Back to School season!
In the first episode, Sonny and Lillian sat down with Ellie Popoca, a senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying Information Sciences and Game Design, a former Major League Hacking coach, and our amazing Curriculum Intern at Codédex. We chatted about the misconceptions of hackathons, hanging with the right people on campus, the future of AI, and much more.
Howdy! We are a brand new podcast for learning to code. Follow us @boba_talk on Twitter to ask us questions in future episodes!
- Co-Host: Sonny Li
- Co-Host: Lillian McVeigh
- Producer: Jay Yow
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