Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He is a software engineer and enthusiastic computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the Indian Engineering Entrance Examination G, twice. But he persevered. He did 4 years of university but attended zero lectures. Instead he built his own learning path using free learning resources, including open source projects and free Codecamp.
He moved from Delhi to London on a UK Global Talent Visa. He works at Cast AI and is the founder of the Vemakadis community.
We will talk about:
How he teaches himself new skills, then teaches those skills through his YouTube channel
His day-to-day operations include working remotely on startups
His role in building Cloud Regions as Field CTO at Sivo, a cloud-native service provider
Indian higher education system
Watch the full podcast on the freecodecamp.org YouTube channel or listen on your favorite podcast app.
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