Meet your host – Phil Choi

If you don't know who I am — I'm Phil. I wrote my first line of code at 30 years old. Before that, I was a broke English teacher in South Korea, living paycheck to paycheck, with zero coding background, zero CS degree, and zero connections in the tech industry.

I picked up a bootcamp brochure one afternoon. I sold my car and went all in. I was the last person in my class — everyone else was faster, more confident, more comfortable. I almost quit multiple times. Then I stopped following tutorials. I stopped studying. I started building ONE project that I actually cared about.

That one project — a board game directory app built with Vue.js and Node.js — got me my first developer job. The skills I built during that process got me promoted into senior developer. By 33 I was earning six figures. By 35 I was a tech lead at companies doing multi-7 figures in annual revenue, earning over $300K per year.

In 2025 alone, I helped 40+ developers break into tech — landing roles at American Express ($120K/yr), Zillow ($200K+/yr), Deloitte, NatWest, IKEA, and more. Most of them had been told they were too old, too behind, or too late. They weren't. And on [DATE], I'm sharing the entire system live for the first time.