From freeCodeCamp to CTO with Robotics Engineer Peggy Wang [Podcast #159]

On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Peggy Wang. She used freeCodeCamp to learn coding. She then worked in Big Tech as a robotics engineer. And now she's cofounder and CTO of Ego AI, a Y-Combinator-backed startup that builds human-like agents for video games.

We talk about:

• How she grew up a first generation American and public school kid in Milwaukee

• How her love of robotics helped her get into Stanford

• How freeCodeCamp served as a key resource to build her developer chops

• The near future of humanoid robots, self-driving cars, and human-like AI agents in games

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Peggy's GameDev company, Ego AI: https://www.egoai.com/

• Quincy's interview with hardware engineer Bruno Haid that he mentions toward the end of this episode: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-hardware-engineering-bruno-haid/