Abandoning med school to become a software engineer with Edidiong Asikpo [Podcast #182]

127 · freeCodeCamp.org · Aug. 8, 2025, 5:13 p.m.
Summary
In this podcast episode, Quincy Larson interviews Edidiong Asikpo, a software engineer who left medical school to pursue a career in tech. Didi shares her experiences growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, the challenges she faced in transitioning from medicine to software engineering, and the lessons she learned along the way.