Coaches

Here you can find a list of the 3152 volunteers who have coached at codebar.

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Tomasz Wegrzanowski

I make awesome things for fun.

Skills: everything

Richard Westenra (he/him)

I've been doing front-end development since 2009, specialising in interactive data-visualisation and responsive webapps. Originally from New Zealand, but I've been in London since 2011.

Skills: html css javascript Photoshop Git wordpress React d3 accessibility usability

Nicky Chorley

Developer at Springer Nature.

Skills: python Linux Git SQL java TDD Scala kotlin

Jo Franchetti

I'm a front end web developer and developer advocate

Skills: html css

Chris Oatley

I am a Makers Academy graduate currently working for Datanauts in Brighton. Would like to become a coach to pass on some of the knowledge I've learned and help create some new coders!

Sam Plews

I'm a developer mainly working with front end stuff. I enjoy explaining things as I learn more in the process.

Skills: html javascript nodejs Git JS React

Tim Stamp (he)

Security Architect & Full Stack Engineer. Coding for 15 years. https://stampy.me

Skills: php javascript c Linux html css Security bash python cryptography

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

Oliver Turner (he/him)

I switched careers to webdev when I was nearly 30. Self-taught, I *wish* something like Codebar had existed back then! Love helping folks to learn, mad keen on JavaScript/Node and CSS.

Skills: html javascript React css sass node

Danielle Vass

i'm an android developer occasionally writing some webapps. Used to teach kids to code.

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: html css JS

Andy Trevorah

I'm a developer at gitter.im where I make web things all day.

Alexander Kustov (he)

To put it simply an Orphist... to be more precise an entrepreneur, to better describe it I believe in advancing technology for humanity every day, by helping innovation teams building tech products.

Skills: ruby css html javascript

Jon Kelly (he/him)

I'm a full-stack Javascript developer (also C++ & C#). Currently interested in functional languages and technologies that build resilient web apps (they do exist!). Helping others to learn programming is always fun, and usually teaches me something, too.

Skills: javascript nodejs Angular Elm c++ c# Dbs

Charlie Egan

I'm a junior Ruby developer that's recently moved to London. I tutored with Codebar the last two summers (2014, 2015) while I was on internship. I've also done demonstrating at my university for computer science courses and Code First Girls.

Skills: ruby rails Git heroku/hosting

Andrew Suffield (they)

I'm an SRE at Goldman Sachs in London, and I believe in the value of a broader, more diverse industry. I try to help out with efforts to improve this when I can.

Robin Tweedie (he/him)

Currently @ Skyscanner, previously @ Songkick.

Skills: ruby html css javascript Go MySql c++ vim rails python java

Igor Czerwinski

Frontend developer with a little bit of experience in this and that. Most recently HTML, CSS and JavaScript. A lot of people helped me to get to where I am now so I want to pass that gift on :)

Clair Griffiths

Started as a student, graduated to coach, the co-organiser of the West London chapter! Currently working as a Ruby Developer at Citizens Advice.

Skills: html css ruby rails

Neil van Beinum

Looking to help with either HTML/CSS or Ruby/Rails at a beginner level.

Skills: ruby html css rails javascript

Christien Guy

Dev up at TrustedHousesitters

Skills: html css javascript scss React

Chuka Ebi

I would like to use my current development skill set to help others who are struggling. I attended Makers Academy and have a minor in Computer Science. I love video games and epic fantasy novels(Sabriel is my fave!).

Skills: javascript ruby c Git

Matt Paul

A graduate of Makers Academy, I would like to be able to help some people out who have taken an interest in coding, and solidify my own learning through teaching of others

Duncan MacKenzie

I’m a web developer at Public Health England (PHE), and like coding in modern full-stack JavaScript, especially with new features inspired by Python and Ruby.

Kendall McCarthy

As a woman who has been the only female technical member of staff at companies I've worked for, I'm really interested in outreach efforts to under-represented groups. I have experience in web development (HTML/CSS/Rails), C/C++, Ruby, and Java.

Ed Kerry (He)

Junior web developer keen to help more people gain these exciting skills!

Giuseppe De Santis (he/him)

Junior web developer @ Parliament Digital Service

Skills: html css javascript ruby

Margo Urey

Web developer using ruby, rails, javascript, html, css and anything else I can learn

Skills: ruby rails javascript html css TDD vue.js react-native

Ryan Maffey

Junior Front End Developer at Redweb

Skills: html css javascript Gulp scss

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

Andrea Mazzarella (he/him)

Help out in any way I can, possibly as a coach. I am currently studying at Makers Academy, 2 weeks away from graduation :)

Ben Scott (He/him)

I'm a web developer, currently working at the BBC. Front-end HTML and CSS is my specialty but I'm more than happy working on the back-end using PHP and doing ops work too.

Kai Vong (He/Him)

designer/developer

Emmett Walsh (he/him)

I've been a developer for a little while now, after taking a conversion via Makers Academy

Skills: ruby javascript TypeScript devops

Louie Christie (he/him)

Software developer. Computer science graduate. Web development bootcamp graduate. Experienced in coaching junior developers at work, and coaching children in youth clubs and summer camps. Experienced at public speaking, in stand-up comedy clubs mostly.

Skills: javascript React Native React css TypeScript ruby

sas stevens

Tired of being the only girl in the room. Actively working to change that. Currently heading up development over at tilt.

Bryan Yap

Full stack web developer and Open Source enthusiast working at Alliants Ltd. During my free time, I am long time member of AgileVentures (agileventures.org) and technical lead of project codenamed WebsiteOne at AgileVentures.

Marcel Cutts

I like building stuff, and sometimes people even pay me to do it. Currently making people fit through Zombie based storytelling.

Michael Harrison (He/him)

I work mainly with JavaScript, particularly Express and React frameworks. I also know Ruby. I am a Makers Academy graduate and used to be a software tester.

Skills: ruby javascript TDD React

Sam Phillips (he/him)

JavaScript & Ruby engineer. Ask me anything!

Skills: ruby javascript html CSS / SCSS SQL MySql Git rails

Kevin McCarthy

I'd like to help people learn to code by creating a safe environment. I have experience with coaching and training from my time at Amazon where I was a coach, trainer and Instructional Designer. Currently working as a developer at AND Digital.

Skills: ruby TDD javascript html css Ruby on Rails

Giuseppe Capizzi (he/him)

Hi! I'm Giuseppe, and I'm a Software Engineer at VMware. I'm Italian, now back in Italy after living in London for ~5 years. I love coaching on any topic I'm familiar with but I'm particularly interested in software design, refactoring and testing.

Skills: ruby python php java golang Git testing OOP functional programming rails

Ruben Rizzi (he)

I used to teach web programming and offer training support to students in the Brooklyn college on a majority of languages. I am a full stack developer with seven years of experience and an iOS developer with one year of experience

Skills: javascript css objective c Swift node.js jQuery React

Daniel Steele (him/he)

Ruby/Rails/HTML/CSS/Javascript Full Stack developer that had recently started his own web development agency and loves helping newbies into the space

Jeremy Stevens

I'm an Android dev at TouchSurgery, working on an app used by surgeons to practice procedures outside the operating theatre! I'm looking to help others get started, and to expand my own knowledge, as there's always more to learn :D

Skills: Android java coaching

Paolo Fabbri (He/Him)

I'm here to coach and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum

Skills: Ruby on Rails ruby Azure java kotlin AWS Linux TypeScript node JS SQL

Razvan Spatariu

Various knowledge of frontendy things.

Skills: css JS pre/postprocessors React testing semantic HTML etc.

KJ D (he/him)

Full-stack developer

Skills: javascript css Git MongoDB django ReactJS Flask nodejs relational databases php rails CMS

Jazzy Gasper (She/her)

Coaching. Makers Academy graduate, front end developer.

Skills: html css javascript

Ryan Hanna

Started learning to code in 2012. Changed career to full time developer in 2013. Excited to share. Mobile app developer at Nexercise.

Han Fakira (he)

Java developer at Sky Network Services. I am a former maths teacher. Some prior experience in ruby, js and python

Skills: java

Rabea Gleissner

General Assembly graduate, currently going on various Java adventures as an apprentice at 8th Light.

Skills: html css scss ruby javascript java

Paul Whitehead

I work for Buffalo in Brighton & before that for 2 other agencies. I have been working with PHP for 7 years. In recent months I have been using Ruby & Rails for work & personal projects.

Skills: ruby rails php wordpress javascript html css Git CLI Dev Ops Symfony

Mark Dessain

Python developer working in finance. Keen to help support and mentor enthusiastic individuals or groups.

Skills: python javascript html css java

Juan Monetti

This is Juan, a Software Engineer from Argentina. Currently living in Amsterdam. I really enjoy coaching and I work in Python, sometimes some Javascript.

Mark Woodbridge

I'm the co-founder of a tech startup but also help out with a voluntary one-on-one numeracy/literacy project. Keen to help anyone who's interested in empowering themselves via technology!

Skills: python javascript HTML/CSS

Edward Withers

Software developer. Learning ever still. I like Go!

Skills: ruby javascript Go

Chris Sherry (he/him)

Web Application Engineer at WeAreBase

Skills: php Linux SQL javascript CSS / SCSS

Maël Estevez

Just travelling the universe on a tiny blue dot.

Skills: c c++ c# java html CSS / SCSS javascript

Julia Friesel (she)

i'm a mentor at a coding school and would like to help out with workshops in berlin

Spike Lindsey (he/him)

SRE at Wealthsimple

Nico Saueressig (he/him)

Freelance Software Developer, now based in Germany. Formerly Software Engineer at Shutl/eBay. Graduate of Makers Academy March 14. I believe teaching others is really teaching myself how to be a better developer.

Skills: ruby javascript rails Sinatra clojure Swift

Ludwik Grodzki (he)

Here to teach clojure.

Skills: clojure Git Redshift BigQuery SQL bash

Brandon Hawkes

I'd like to teach people coding! I'm a Creative Technologist and I do a bit of everything.

Daniel Ngo

I'm a graphic designer and web developer that enjoys sharing what I know about front-end development, ux design, web typography, preprocesses, techniques and just general workflow productivity.

Skills: html css wordpress email Git shopify javascript vue.js node

Kristian Hamilton

Front end for a while. Interests include art, sewing and coding

Skills: html javascript css React TDD Redux jQuery creative code and generative art

Sarah Barber

I'm a java web developer right now with 6 years of professional experience. I also have another 2 years of basic IT training experience, when I trained teachers in a college to use technology to enhance their learning. I want to improve diversity.

Skills: java html javascript python arduino css

Anthony Weber

I'm a frontend developer who loves coding

Conor Cussell (Mr)

Front end developer mainly working with HTML, CSS, React, GraphQL

Skills: javascript html css node GraphQL

Jamie Brown (He/Him)

Senior software engineer working at The Financial Times.

Aiden Wright (He/Him)

I would really like to get excited about coding again. I'm a front end developer and would like to continue focusing on front end technologies.

Dmitry Kandalov

I have been programming and trying to get better at it since DOS times. I'm currently working with Java and JVM languages such as Kotlin.

Mark Everitt (he/him)

Web (mostly server, some browser) + game software developer and one time Quantum Information Scientist. Full time Node.js between 2012-2022, and since then Ruby and Scala (but I still love JS).

Skills: node.js JS ruby Scala c++ rust SQL c

Alex Fakhri

I've studied at Makers Academy and I'm looking for my first Junior Developer role. Wanted to keep myself skills sharp and keep improving and also improve by trying to pass on the knowledge to others.

Charlotte Jackson

I'm a front-end dev in Sydney. I'm mostly into CSS and I'm passionate about mentoring and learning.

Skills: html css JS Git

Ronan McCabe (he/him)

I'm a full stack JavaScript developer who did the Founders & Coders bootcamp in May 2015.

Kayra Alat

I'm full stack but I feel at home with Python.

Matt Crouch

HTML/CSS, JS I've covered a few workshops at university at an entry/mid level for different tech such as HTML/CSS, PHP and ActionScript in the past. I'm a web developer working from home for a company in Poole.

Mateu Adsuara

I started programming as a hobby around 17 years ago. At that time I also was into video-game hacking. Much later, I realised I could make a living from my hobby and took it seriously. I'm currently working for 8thLight and liking functional programming

Skills: ruby javascript php java clojure Erlang Haskell TDD Property-based testing Exteme Programming Elm html css Object oriented functional programming Git vim SQL Electronics SOLID Design patterns Android

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