From fast food worker to cybersecurity engineer with Taelur Alexis Podcast, 169

On this week s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Tae lur Alexis. She s a developer and security analyst. Instead of going to college, Tae lur spent years working various fast food and retail jobs. Tae lur taught herself Python and JavaScript using freeCodeCamp and worked as a software engineer for 5 years before specializing in security engineering. Now instead of building applications, she breaks them. We talk about: Making ends meet working McDonalds in Florida How she taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp and the, 100DaysOfCode challenge Leveraging local meetups to make developer friends Moving to Thailand and working remotely Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidl. .., freeCodeCamp 20250421 LrPhWAGYhlI