Dev Leader Podcast Quitting the Plan: How One Developer Reinvented His Career from Scratch
Jan 13, 2026
54:04
In this episode of the Dev Leader Podcast, I sit down with Simon Stern to unpack a career journey that cuts across far more than just writing code. Simon started out in biochemistry on a path toward medicine, walked away from it entirely, taught himself to code, became a boot camp instructor, worked in big tech, and is now leaning hard into entrepreneurship.
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