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  Alumni Spotlight: David Goodman of LearningFuze

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 22, 2016

  David was working in technology sales when he discovered his passion for coding. He tried to teach himself but had too many unanswered questions, so decided to attend LearningFuze coding bootcamp in Orange County, CA. He graduated in early...

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  Campus Spotlight: Sabio Orange County

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 21, 2016

  Sabio’s Orange County campus opened in January 2016, and so far they have graduated 7 new developers and 100% have found jobs. We spoke to Sabio VP of Engineering, and lead OC instructor, Aaron Gibson about how he first got involved with...

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  Landing a Job after Tech Elevator

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on November 3, 2021

  With a job market in flux, coding bootcamps like Tech Elevator have rapidly adjusted to ensure their bootcamp students still receive the career preparation they need to land their first tech role. Kelly Brucker, the Lead Pathway Program Director at...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Sardina of Flatiron School

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 15, 2016

  Jennifer Sardina had a lot of interesting jobs, as a foreign language teacher, a chemistry lab technician, a health coach, and a full-time mom. But she wanted a career. She had never been interested in computers before, but when her brother gave her a programming book, she couldn’t put it down. J...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Ashi Mysore of Grace Hopper Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 15, 2016

  Ashi started learning to code at age 6, and has since worked at NOAA, Google, Dev Bootcamp, and is now an instructor at women’s coding bootcamp Grace Hopper Academy in New York City. We spoke to Ashi ab...

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  Employer Spotlight: Pat Poels, VP of Engineering at Eventbrite

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on December 6, 2019

  Pat Poels is the VP of Engineering at Eventbrite, and since 2012, he has hired several software engineers from Hackbright Academy, a Python coding bootcamp for women in San Francisco. Here, Pat answers all of our questions about his experience hiring from a coding bootcamp, why he values engineers with non-traditional backgr...

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  What are Hiring Managers Looking for in Junior UX Designers?

  

  Christine Zimmerman

  Updated on April 16, 2020

  User experience is a science as much as it is an art. This makes it an attractive career choice for technologists who enjoy working with people as much as they love building products. What does it take to launch your career as a user experience designer? What skills and experiences are most important to hiring managers seeking junior UX designers? We went straight to hiring managers to...

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  Campus Spotlight: The Iron Yard Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 8, 2016

  [As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] After working with the state of Florida to get licensed as a post-secondary education institution, The Iron Yard is ready to hit the ground running, teach...

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  Student Spotlight: Zee Adams of Holberton School

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 7, 2016

  As a technical writer for 12 years, Zee Adams had always loved new technology, but when she decided to start her own business she realized she needed to learn to code. Now Zee is four months into the two-year, full-time full stack program at...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Joseph Alves of Fullstack Academy

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on June 7, 2016

  Joseph Alves was a self-taught PHP and JavaScript programmer for five years before he stepped into an instructor role at Fullstack Academy in NYC last January, so his unique perspective as a teacher is crucial to anyone cons...

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