Coaches

Here you can find a list of the 2929 volunteers who have coached at codebar.

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Nicolas Beney (he/him)

Full stack senior developer. Started programming at 12 and still loving it! Volunteering with young people at various CoderDojo and CodeClub events. Looking forward to help young adults too, especially from under-represented communities.

Skills: Raspberry Pi Scala Linux c++ python Git SQL javascript html css React java

Kumbirai Tanekha (he)

The goal is to contribute by helping others get up and running. I have a broad range of experiences working as a software engineer so I suspect I'll be useful. This is also a chance for me to learn.

Skills: Observability cryptography Xcode iOS android studio Systems Integration Testing architecture Database Protocols startups E-commerce Unit Testing Android kubernetes rust Containers golang Databases python ruby javascript html css React node.js MongoDB docker postgres devops

Isaac Raskin (he/him)

I am an alumnus of Founders and Coders, a javascript boot camp in London and Nazareth. I currently work for a music tech startup called Beatchain as a senior developer. I'd love to coach people in node, react, next.js, react-router, typescript etc.

Skills: react-router Redux styled-components Next.js node GraphQL javascript html css React TypeScript

Jodi Winters (she/her)

Very senior dev in BBC News. I have plenty of experience in a bunch of languages and technologies that no one uses anymore! That's life in the tech industry!

Skills: Unity/C# Love2D JS php Git SQL html css React

Jordan O'Hara (He/Him)

I've recently finished University where I studied Software Engineering. Currently, I have a full-stack focus but have experience mainly with front-end development and within my free time I like to diversify my portfolio by building small applications

Andrew Steel (he/him)

I'm a software engineer, specializing in frontend technologies professionally.

Skills: Unit Testing Shell scripting Linux c Git javascript html css React TypeScript

Ollie Baker

I'm a freelance developer based in Brighton. I like to make games and all things interactive. I use JS/HTML/CSS, Unity and Haxe.

Skills: JS html css

Sam De Maeyer (him)

Hi, I am a principal front-end engineer working at Smart and I am very eager to share my knowledge with others!

Skills: HTML5 CSS3 EmberJs javascript

Nils Bussas

I'm a software engineer interested in sharing my knowledge and connecting with people. Currently, I work as a C++ developer on chargers for electric vehicles. In the past I've worked on self-driving vehicles and endoscopes.

Skills: Java (quite rusty) JS (basic) C/C++ Linux python Git Go c#

Adrian Rogers

I like robots and the code community in Barcelona and all the funky stuff they're making.

Skills: Front end!

Abby Hudson (She/her)

I work as a backend developer for Wonderbly and have been coding for around 3 years. I work with Ruby on Rails and Typescript.

Skills: ruby javascript TypeScript

jason chalangary (He/him)

I just finished a bootcamp in full-stack software development at the School of Code. I am looking to build a network with other people interested in code because I love coding and teaching code and I know it's the future!

Skills: Next Vite TailwindCSS node Express SQL javascript html css React TypeScript

Willem Labuschagne

I like solving problems.

Skills: any web + mobile stuff Ops/CI Java/Kotlin JS/TypeScript Obj-C/Swift php c# SQL html css React AWS

Lewis Jones (he/him)

I'm Head of Software at a small startup, and am also interested in robotics, mobile apps, websites, etc. I'm familiar with JavaScript, NodeJS, C#, Unity, React ...but happy to help with other languages/ frameworks or with general coding principles.

Skills: System design Express unity nodejs Git c# javascript React

Kurre Ståhlberg (he/him)

I want to do something concrete to support minorities. I know programming well so this seems like a natural way be a better ally.

Pau Ortega Puig (he/him)

I'm a software developer who after close to 8 years of experience is starting to feel like he understands code. I've grown thanks to the people who have acted informally as mentors. I aim to repay the favour.

Skills: OOP basics XP practices JS php TDD Vue

Daniel Crook (He)

Hello! I was recommended to join as a coach and thought its a great opportunity to help out the community. I have 8 years coding experience professionally in finance industry - in lots of languages from java, python, to web ! :)

Skills: web nosql rust Linux c python SQL java

Helen Khor (she/her)

I currently work for Accenture as a frontend / UI developer. I am obsessed with design systems to scale products faster whilst providing a consistent user experience. I want to give back time to codebar after having spending many years as a student.

Skills: sass React.js javascript html css

Jason Hotchkiss (he)

I used to work as a developer in travel and have a lot of c++ and sql knowledge. Now have a small business making electronic music instruments.. lots of firmware stuff! can help with arduino/teensy/pic/arm etc

Skills: Electronics c c++ SQL javascript

Peter Warner-Medley (he/him)

Currently working as lead data/platform engineer at Lyst. Lover of teaching and making tech look a bit less like me (I am a white dude 😬)

Skills: copy-pasta from stackoverflow databases/SQL Total newbies first code javascript/typescript React (nothing too fancy) cloud infrastructure (mostly AWS) CS basics (beginners complexity etc) algorithms Elixir data structures python AWS

Joby Harding (he / him)

I'm a freelance full-stack developer in Brighton UK and I 💜 building web apps.

Skills: TailwindCSS laravel php javascript React TypeScript

Hannah van den Wijngaard (she/her)

I'm a junior front end developer. I got my first professional coding job through Codebar and I'm excited to come back as a coach!

Brittany Blankinship (she/her )

various data processing, analysis, visualisation and presentations in R and RMarkdown

Skills: R statistics Data Visualisation

Bela Hamid

I began my career as a software developer in 2021 after attending a coding bootcamp. I used to attend Codebar as a student and would like to come back as a volunteer coach.

Skills: javascript html css React

Hugh Cole-Baker (he/him)

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven.io, I work on projects in Python and SQL and in the past I've written things in Rust, Java and many years ago a game for Nintendo DS in C++.

Skills: Amazon Web Services Cloud rust Linux python SQL java devops

Matthew Williams (He/Him)

An experienced JavaScript / TypeScript developer that wants to contribute more to the local Norwich tech scene by coaching!

Skills: Testing. node javascript React TypeScript

Petar Zigic (He/Him/His)

Share my knowledge and improve my communication skills

Zsolt Sztupak (he, they)

I'm an Engineering Manager based in Edinburgh. Previously I have also been a Teaching Assistant at a university where I realised I like helping people out when I can. I also held ruby tutorials to my co-workers as well.

Skills: spring-boot Android Ansible digitalocean kubernetes x86 assembly algorithms functional programming Vanilla javascript Haskell c Ruby on Rails c++ c# ruby html css docker java terraform AWS devops

Armand Dupuis (he/him)

Hey, I'm Armand! I'm a senior software developer located in Helsinki, Finland. I have experience coaching and teaching and enjoy helping others!

Skills: FullStack Web Development node python javascript React TypeScript

Michael Mulqueen (He/him)

Interested in helping with anything, professionally I do full stack so HTML, CSS, Javascript (vanilla and Vue.js) + Bootstrap and lots of Python, SQL, occasionally PHP. Self taught and a career changer, may be useful?

Skills: svg vue.js python javascript html css

bruna isabel (she/her)

I am a junior software engineer working at a cybersecurity company! I want to help people on their programming journey and to make them develop a passion for coding!

Skills: laravel vue.js jQuery php python javascript

Andrew Gray (he)

I'm a full stack developer with data science and system integration tendencies. Also chef and mixicologist. I wrote 6502 assembler on a Commodore Pet in 1980. I feel very old.

Skills: Scala kotlin Elixir Haskell REST progressive-enhancement Do-not-use-React rust golang Git SQL javascript html css java

Florian Rathgeber (he/him)

I'm leading the team of codebar hosts at Google. Sometimes I also get to coach \o/

Skills: Linux bash c c++ python Git SQL javascript

Ademola Fabuyi (he)

I work as a full-stack consultant, so I generally get thrown into situations where I need to learn on the fly but my main knowledge base is around web development and cloud computing solutions.

Skills: cdk Jest python SQL javascript html css React TypeScript

Thomas Ankcorn (he/him)

Puppo dad, coffee snob, foodie.

Skills: python TDD javascript node.js AWS devops

Fernando Junior (he/him/they)

I've been working with development teams for the last few years. Mostly trying not to break everything around =)

Skills: Test shellscript deploy heroku nodejs ruby TDD javascript docker java testing

Callum Clegg

Studied Computer Science at the University of East Anglia. Currently a C++ developer for Artlist working on HitFilm.

Skills: Front-end c++ python java

Nelly Camacho

I have recently graduated in web design and content planning. I am currently working as a junior web designer at a web agency. I would be happy to teach one of my passions, coding; while helping people to reach their goals.

Julian Blundell (he)

I am a freelance back end developer, been working in the Brighton area for 15 years. My specialties are Sql and NoSql database design and implementation, php/mvc frameworks and reasonable JavaScript/jQuery

Skills: nosql mvc jQuery php database SQL javascript

Anil Rao (he/him)

I have a background in machine learning research and development. I would like to coach python and also learn some of the other languages taught at Codebar.

Sarah Giblett (She)

I currently work as a software developer contractor https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-giblett/

Skills: JavaScript/jQuery Umbraco PHP/Smarty PHP .NET .ASP.NET c# SQL html css

Laura Dobie (she/her)

I completed the CodeClan software development course in March 2021, and I'm currently a developer at Verint, working mostly with Java and Spring. Happy to help with projects in Java or Python, could brush up on my front end skills to help with this, too!

Skills: spring python java

Yeseul Lee (she)

I'm a junior software engineer at a health tech company, having transitioned from web design. Passionate about sharing knowledge & experience, I understand the challenges of coding for the first time. I love learning & problem-solving!

Skills: React.js Git SQL javascript html css node.js

Esko Luontola (he/him)

I'm a full-stack developer with coding experience since 1999. I created the TDD MOOC at the University of Helsinki: https://tdd.mooc.fi I've also coached beginners at Rails Girls and wrote the tutorial https://web-intro.luontola.fi

Skills: frontend backend ux TDD devops

Max Hatfull (he/him)

Ruby, rails, unity (game dev) I'm a senior engineer at FreeAgent working with rails and js. In the past I've worked at Sumdog building their games to help children learn maths. I'm also blind.

Geraint Guan (he/him)

I'm interested in contributing as a coach and helping out. I'm currently a lead software engineer at a start-up (appointedd.com) and I've worked across the back-end and front-end of web application development as well as tooling/infrastructure.

Skills: REST APIs php GraphQL javascript TypeScript MongoDB

John Beisley (he/him)

I've coached at Codebar @ Google sessions. I've been a Software Engineer for ~18 years in the industry, the last 12 years of which as an SRE at Google. I typically work in Python and Go, but have an interest in Rust. Outside of work I play D&D.

Skills: rust c++ python Go SQL javascript html java

Julian Pfeifle (he/him)

I'm a research mathematician at UPC in Barcelona, and an active member of the developer team of https://polymake.org . This is C++ software for treating high-dimensional discrete geometry. Lately I've also started using https://julialang.org .

Skills: Julia jQuery php c++ python SQL html css

Tom Robinson (he/him)

I am a Software Engineer at Cisco based in London with around 6 years of experience within the tech industry. I have a First Class Degree in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, graduating back in 2017.

Skills: OpenCV computer vision ai agile Networking OpenGL ARM Assembly Ci/CD Embedded Programming data structures redis Cassandra Microservices Containers machine learning bash c Databases c++ python javascript React TypeScript docker java

Anna Velentsevich

I'm backend engineer working last 7 years with ruby, currently working at smart group.

Erdinc Mutlu (he)

Software engineer. Open source contributor, hackathon lover. https://github.com/erdincmutlu https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutlu

Skills: golang Linux python Git TDD SQL html docker AWS

Chris Oldnall (he/him)

My main programming language is Python! Typically I work on implementation of statistical estimators which come in complex forms.

Craig Dunlop (He/Him)

I've mainly worked on React/Node.js full stack applications as well as a little React Native for personal projects. As a career changer myself, I'd like to support others looking to make the switch into a career in tech.

Skills: React Native Next.js SQL javascript html React node.js java

Duncan Brown (he/him)

I'd like to post a job advertisement

Leo Riviera (he/they)

Hello! I'd like to attend events and coach participants. I've given talks at several events, worked across a handful of startups building out their architecture and writing code. I like mentoring and speaking to people and would like to do it a lot more.

Christos Gkerekos (he/him)

I'm working as a data scientist at a tech start-up (90poe.io). Before that I've done R&D in engineering and data projects. I'd be keen to coach in data science/python/git/PM. I enjoy the outdoors and good food.

Skills: pandas numpy machine learning sklearn project management python Git

Tuure Kaunisto (he/him)

I've been a web developer for over 10 years. Although I'm a programmer, good UX is what I like most about my job. I also tinker with electronic projects and robotics.

Skills: JS node jQuery ts Express RoR unity Angular c# SQL html css React

Daniel Yuschick

Lover of chocolate, tattoos and bridging the gaps between design and development.

Skills: Web Accessibility javascript html css React

FRIDA PERSSON (She)

Just started my coding journey and looking for some help and motivation

Skills: php Symfony python SQL javascript React

Marika Kwiecień (she/her)

I'm fairly new here, moved to Finland last year, along with my wife. I've been working in IT for the last 15 years, mostly as a full stack engineer and manager. I'm developing my own idea, which requires me to learn data science and machine learning.

Thomas Marano (He/Him)

I currently work as a software engineer and would love the opportunity to code with students. I learnt how to code 5 years ago and have had various coding roles since then. I have worked primarily in JavaScript / TypeScript and Elixir.

Paul R (he/him)

I teach source control and testing classes in a university once a year and would like to improve there. I've been a software engineer for 9 years with a master in electronics. I am now a full stack developer working on medical devices.

Skills: AWS (CloudFormation) Docker Compose bash GNU Make c jenkins Arch Linux gitlab qt react (a bit) Perforce Matlab signal processing c++ python Git docker

Mo Jama (he/him)

Software developer. I've volunteered at other similar learning environments such as CoderDojo and myself was a teacher in the past. I'd like to promote a positive environment and help explain topics in a clear, easy-to-understand way.

Skills: sass React.js GraphQL Git javascript html css TypeScript

Emil Virkki (he/him)

I'm interested in coaching :)

Tara Galloway (she/her)

I'm a little rusty on my JS but I think I could be a good asset in a little time. I studied it at bootcamp in 2018 and have since been working in GO, almost 4 years in my current position at Vet AI where I'm a mid level backend developer

Agnès Garoux (she/her)

I've been a software engineer for 3.5 years after working in education 👩‍🏫 ➡️👩‍💻 Clean, elegant, readable code 🫧 🏛️ 👀 Talking to users to build the products that they need and they'll love 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Always happy to help 🤗

Skills: javascript React TypeScript node.js AWS

Steve Honeyman

I’m a front-end developer and designer with a passion for web standards, layout, typography and graphics. I believe that anyone and everyone should be able to code and that building sites should be easy and fun.

Kye Bracey (he)

Makers graduate, Front End/Games Developer at mangahigh.com

Skills: Phaser accessibility version control javascript html css React

Carmelo Carrillo (He/his)

I’ve been a developer for five years. I’d love to help others to make it into the tech community. It will be nice to know a little bit more about the project and see how me and a group I colaborate with could help.

Michelle Steele (She/her)

Dotnet / JS / Ruby full stack developer at Avalara.

Skills: HTML/CSS Dotnet/C# Git ruby TDD javascript React

James Renwick

I previously worked at Thomson Reuters as a Front end engineer on an AI project which would read leases for lawyers and use AI to highlight important information. I've since been with Butternut Box for over a year now as a senior front end engineer

Yuqing Wang (she/her)

I am a Data Science bootcamp graduate, with 1-year experience in teaching Data Science with Python. Self-taught web developer, will be joining Founders and Coders Cohort 28 this year. Ask me about bootcamp applications/experience and my guinea pigs.

Skills: python SQL javascript html css

Roisin Farmer (she/her)

I am a senior full stack developer working with various technologies. I had a pretty traditional path with an MEng in Software Engineering I love hearing everyone's different route into tech

Skills: AngularJS Angular SQL javascript React java

Uros Cirkovic (He/him)

I have recently seen that one of my ex-colleagues (Capucine Rosset) is a coach at Codebar Barcelona and as I myself was working as a teacher in a coding bootcamp for over 2 years I would like to volunteer and assist in your program.

Tom Waddington (He/him)

I've been coding in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript for 15+ years. Keen to teach Rails, but can help with JS too 🙂

Skills: Ruby on Rails rails API database ruby javascript TypeScript

William Frankish (he/him)

Full stack developer at Oxford Computer Consultants. [email protected] is also me.

Skills: python (if necessary) java (if necessary) c# javascript html css React TypeScript

Leaf Rogers (he/him)

I’d love to help people learn web technologies that I know well, with anything from beginner level HTML/CSS/JavaScript to professional and high-traffic web apps/sites. From me you’ll get patience, kindness, and hopefully some mutual learning!

Skills: nodejs accessibility web performance web standards user interfaces HTTP principles version control software engineering CDNs Databases working in cross-discipline teams line management contracting in the UK interviewing CVs expressjs api design javascript html css TypeScript

Oscar Chen (he/him)

I am a software engineer working at Bloomberg on our financial analytics platform. I primarily work with C++ and Python, and a little JavaScript. As a self taught programmer, I hope to help others on the same journey!

Skills: c++ python Git can coach beginner javascript and HTML

Nathan Dao (he/him)

Howdie! I'm Nathan and currently working as a Senior Software Developer at Futurice, Finland. I worked mostly as a full stack developer using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go and a bit of infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Terraform).

Skills: Go React TypeScript node.js Azure AWS

Evie Skinner (she/her)

Hiya coders! I'm a polyglot developer with 4.5 years' experience. I was bootcamp-trained and used to be a student at Codebar. I can help you with .Net, Azure, Vue, React, TDD, interview preparation, CV tips, and more :->

Skills: c# ruby TDD SQL javascript html css Vue React TypeScript node.js MongoDB docker Azure java public speaking postgres terraform AWS testing devops

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