Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he persevered. He did 4 years of university but attended ZERO lectures. Instead he built his own learning path by contributed to open source projects.
He moved from Delhi to London on a UK Global Talent Visa. He works at Cast AI and is the founder of the WeMakeDevs community.
We'll talk about:
- How he teaches himself new skills, then teaches those skills through his YouTube channel
- His day-to-day working remotely at startups
- His role in building out cloud regions as a field CTO at Civo, a cloud native service provider
- The Indian higher education system
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Links from our discussion:
- Kunal's Y
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