• #165 From hating coding to programming satellites at age 37 with Francesco Ciulla

  • Mar 21 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
  • Podcast

#165 From hating coding to programming satellites at age 37 with Francesco Ciulla

  • Summary

  • On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Francesco Ciulla. He's a software engineer who has worked with the European Space Agency on code that powers the Copernicus satellite program. More recently he's published courses on learning Docker and the Rust programming language.

    We talk about:
    - How Francesco worked as a volleyball coach until we was 32, before getting serious about coding
    - Francesco's work on coding satellites
    - How he's given dozens of talks about emerging tools at major tech conferences
    - How he creates tech tutorials even though he's a proud introvert who has to put himself out there

    Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out-of-the-box, then extend, replace, and break boundaries with code. Learn more at https://wixstudio.com.

    Support also comes from the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

    Links we talk about during our conversation:

    - Francesco's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@francescociulla
    - Francesco's upcoming book on Rust: https://mybook.to/YJI6DI
    - Francesco's personal website and all his links: https://www.francescociulla.com

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