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ThePrimeagen

  • Programmer, educator, podcaster, Twitch streamer
  • Michael B. Paulson
  • @theprimeagen
  • American
  • 40 years old
  • Virgo
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Michael Paulson, known as ThePrimeagen, is a programmer and educator.[1] He streams himself writing software and spent ten years developing performance-critical software at Netflix.[2][3] By May 2024, he had left Netflix to stream full-time.[2]

Developer tools and teaching

He developed Harpoon, an editor plugin for marking files and switching between them.[4][5] His courses include The Last Algorithms Course You'll Need, which covers data structures and searching and sorting algorithms.[6] He also teaches VIM Fundamentals and Rust for TypeScript Developers.[7] On Boot.dev, he teaches Git and the HTTP protocol.[3]

Terminal.shop and The Standup

ThePrimeagen and TJ DeVries built the terminal.shop application on livestreams using Charm tools. The shop sells coffee through a command-line interface over SSH.[8]

He hosts The Standup podcast.[9] Its first episode was released on May 7, 2025.[10] He collaborated with Esfand on a video about building World of Warcraft addons.[11]

Personal information

Real name
Michael B. Paulson
Gender
Male [3]
Birthday
Age
40 years
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birthplace
United States
Based in
South Dakota [4]
Occupation
Programmer, educator, podcaster [9]
Nationality
American
Education
Montana State University [4]
Family
Married [12]
Siblings
Older brother [4]

General information

Language
EN
On Twitch since
28 July 2017
Twitch followers
296,363
Channel age
9y 3m
Twitch data updated
Category
World of Warcraft

Sources

  1. "#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God". lexfridman.com. March 22, 2025. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on June 22, 2026.
  2. "The freeCodeCamp Podcast: #124 AI is Overrated – Why ThePrimeagen Ripped Out GitHub Copilot Out From His Code Editor". freecodecamp.libsyn.com. May 17, 2024. Retrieved October 29, 2026.
  3. "ThePrimeagen". boot.dev. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on September 5, 2026.
  4. "Transcript for ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461". lexfridman.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on October 7, 2026.
  5. "GitHub - ThePrimeagen/harpoon". github.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on September 28, 2026.
  6. "Algorithms & Data Structures | Learn Algorithms with TypeScript for Interviews". frontendmasters.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026.
  7. "Learn from ThePrimeagen's courses". frontendmasters.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on July 20, 2026.
  8. "A coffee shop for your terminal". charm.sh. June 6, 2024. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on July 17, 2025.
  9. "ThePrimeagen". thestanduppod.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on July 12, 2026.
  10. "The Standup with ThePrimeagen". thestanduppod.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on October 2, 2026.
  11. "The PrimeTime". youtube.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026.
  12. "ThePrimeagen (ThePrimeagen)". github.com. Retrieved October 29, 2026. Archived on October 7, 2026.
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