#114 From Microsoft Engineer to CTO – Quincy interviews Meme Queen Cassidoo (Cassidy Williams)
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson talks with developer-turned-CTO Cassidy Williams, also known as Cassidoo on Twitter and TikTok.
She's worked in tech for over a decade as a developer at several tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and Netlify. She has gradually progressed to senior developer and now CTO.
Links we talk about during the interview:
Cassidy's newsletter: https://cassidoo.co/newsletter/
Cassidy on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cassidoo
Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cassidoo
The National Center for Women and Information Technology: https://ncwit.org/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | ...you know, Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | Each week we talk with developers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people who are getting into tech. |
| 0:34.3 | This week, I'm joined by Cassidy Williams, aka Cassidoo. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello. |
| 0:42.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, we're thrilled to how you're here. |
| 0:45.0 | Cassidy, where does that name come from? |
| 0:46.9 | That's your handle on Twitter and TikTok and all the things. |
| 0:50.2 | It came from my mom, actually. |
| 0:52.0 | She would say, like, how do you do Cassidoo? |
| 0:54.1 | And I picked it as a username in college, and it just kind of stuck everywhere. |
| 0:59.6 | Awesome. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.5 | And everywhere. |
| 1:01.2 | Indeed, that's one of the things I want to just start off by talking about, like, how you are ubiquities. |
| 1:07.2 | I can't really even think of any developers who are on more platforms and like putting out more stuff than you. |
| 1:14.4 | So just some quick background on Cassidy. |
| 1:17.6 | She's been a developer for more than a decade. |
| 1:20.0 | She's worked at tons of big companies. |
| 1:21.8 | She's worked at lots of small companies as well. |
| 1:23.8 | She's currently the CTO of a tech startup. |
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