Coaches

Here you can find a list of the 3012 volunteers who have coached at codebar.

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Luke T (He/Him)

I'd like to help out with local coding worshops. I have worked as a programmer for many years and have good all-round experience in lots of different languages and technical areas. I've also helped with coaching as a member of other organisations.

Emilio de la Torre (he/him)

I've done backend work with Node.js and GCP/AWS. I've done more frontend work recently, using mostly React. I'll be happy to work on any of those

Tanika Robinson (she/her)

I completed a full stack course with CodeYourFuture and I am now working with Financial Times as a Full Stack Engineer. I can work with students to help them understand the basics of HTM, CSS and Javascript.

Andy Little

Hello, previously a musician, I have recently made the transition to tech myself. I spent half a year as an engineer at LeavingCard.com before joining the FT last May where I have been very content. I enjoying both the work and the lovely people here.

Skills: node React AWS GraphQL css

Bruno Girin (he/him)

I've been coding for 25 years with a variety of technologies. I'm currently working with Node.js and Python and I have experience with Java, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and APIs.

Skills: java python html css bash API SQL javascript node.js svg Git Continuous Integration

Jack McBride (He/Him)

I work at Ghyston, Codebar is one of our chosen charities. I would like to teach programming . I have a real passion for front-end development (React, JS/TS) and would like to spread this to others. https://portfolio-jackmcbride.vercel.app/

Skills: javascript TypeScript JSX html css tailwind React Next.js GraphQL node.js

Kevin Darbin (he/him)

Helping to host event at Hargreaves Lansdown

Matt Bonetti (he/him)

I would like to be a coach, I work at Hargreaves Lansdown and we are hosting a CodeBar on August 22nd

Archit Sharma (he/him)

I have been a software developer at Ghyston for over a year after studying Electrical Engineering at university

Sarah Binney (she/her)

I want to help people who feel like tech outsiders gain confidence. Taught at Codebar, Code First Girls and Breakthrough. Day job: Technical Lead at Softwire.

Christy Campbell (he/him)

Coaching and mentoring. Engineering manager now but was primarily a java dev, work on a bit of typescript/infra as code stuff now

Qumber Hussain

Hello! I am Qumber I am a full-stack dev working in the industry for the last several year. My work is based in London, I've worked on a range of projects and products all involving HTML/CSS and JS. Qumber

Skills: javascript TypeScript html css React

Lorenzo! Z

I am a frontend developer using Angular, React, and JavaScript.

Ollie Atkins (he/him)

Hi there, I'm interested in attending events organised via codebar. I am in my first year as a Junior Software Engineer after graduating from Le Wagon's 9-week coding bootcamp last year.

Fran Pavelić (he/him)

I've been mentoring for a while at my job and feel like coaching people more outside of work, after my experience at one of the events hosted at my job.

Skills: python Ansible golang bash devops SQL MySql Linux terraform zfs

Rachel Franklin

Frontend Developer, with 5 years of experience

Skills: html css javascript GraphQL Styled Components

Femke Bolle (she/her/they)

I have 5 years of experience working as a data scientist in cyber security

Skills: python data science machine learning statistics R

Peter Trizuliak (He)

Happy to help with JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS or Node.js

Skills: javascript React html css node.js

Josh Hudson (He/Him)

I am a Web Developer at We Are Tilt in Brighton and since being a student at Codebar last year i thought i'd come back as a tutor and coach people to become web developers and improve their skills as mine have been helped so much by Codebar

Skills: html css javascript

John Baxter (he/him)

I have ~1 year of commercial experience; I'm most fluent in Python. In the past I have completed Makers Academy bootcamp, had temporary (short-term) employment at Funding Circle and am now working at AND Digital.

Skills: python SQL ruby

Amy Morrison (She/her)

React developer, love javascript :) and UX

Sandy McMillan (he)

I'm currently an instructor at CodeClan in Edinburgh. Before that I had been a programmer for many years

Skills: ruby javascript c c++ c# java SQL

Alessia Calafiore

I am lecturer in urban data science and work with R on a daily basis. I am specialised on dealing with spatial data spanning analysis and visualisation/mapping. I also developed an R package to interact with the Consumer Data Research Centre API.

Xavier Vergés (he/him)

25+ years at IBM. Now at StreamSets. I like Python, node.js and teaching.

Skills: python node.js Git

Kieran Marron (He/him)

I've worked in various roles up to VP of engineering. I enjoy encouraging people to explore and solve problems and owning the solutions they build.

Skills: dotNET c# PowerShell Technical Design leadership

Charlotte Desvages (she/her)

I got into coding through academic research, coding simulations of musical instruments. I'm now a lecturer - my day job is teaching Python to maths students (which I love!)

Skills: python numpy scipy pandas seaborn matplotlib Matlab Git github

Mouaad Aallam (he/him)

Software Engineer at Algolia and passionate about tech!

Nico Clack (he/him)

I've been mentoring at Coder Dojo Brighton for 2 years, teaching young people to program in Scratch, Python and JavaScript. I think volunteering at codebar will be interesting to see how mentoring adults will compare to young people.

Umberto Noe (he, him, his)

I teach statistics within the Department of Psychology of the University of Edinburgh. I have experience with coding in R, Python, and Matlab.

Jason Margolin (He)

I have been coding since 2003 mainly web dev and infra backend systems. I currently work at Facebook.

Skills: javascript python MySql node.js docker

Yuri Tománek (He/Him)

I currently work at Wonderbly as a Tech Lead. I've been involved in software engineering since around 2004, mainly focusing on Ruby. I have professional experience with Ruby, Objective C, Swift and Go.

Skills: ruby rails Objective-C Go devops Engineering Managment interview preparation Composing

Yekaterina Biryukova (she/her)

Software Engineer, ex Codebar student

Skills: javascript jQuery html css c# .NET problem solving interview prep

Jonathan Kerr (he/him)

I've a dev and I work for the government. I write mostly in Python

Skills: python SQL sqlalchemy Flask

Kelvin Gan

I'm a dev Chinese dad of two wonderful girls, so codebar is a strong cause for me. I miss running my Code Club since starting work at GOV.UK. Helping others to learn to code is an awesome thing I want to do more of!

Khalid .

I am a long-term hobbyist, Ex-Software Engineer at a FAANG company, Recurse Center Alumni (Fall, 2015). I took a sabbatical for personal development and travelling. I'd love to help to mentor in order to give back to the community.

Skills: Full-Stack JavaScript functional programming Game Development java python distributed systems

Sreekanth Rajan (He/him)

I am happy to assist for help on Python, C++, Linux or BASH shell scripting. I am primarily a C++ engineer with around 15+ years of experience. I do not have experience or knowledge in front end technologies or JavaScript or Ruby.

Skills: c++ python bash

Ian Shaw

I would be open to mentoring other tech I have experience in such as Python react, next js, mysql etc. I am the sole developer at a fire engineering company and am making a next js fitness leaderboard app in my spare time.

Michele L

Sharing engineering knowledge is the path of growth.

Bertrand Denoix (he/him)

Retired software architect/developer, and part-time programming teacher. Can do workshop or remote mentoring.

Skills: python java Linux bash Gimp Git c javascript regex SQL software engineering

Mariana Lozynska (she/her)

I am a junior developer, in the past I did html, css and JavaScript. I want to work in these areas on codebar.

Jordi Navines (he/him)

I am an Engineering Manager at Grabyo. I would like to coach and help other engineers grow their knowledge and confidence.

Dylan Tientcheu

Software engineer, proficient with Vue, React, Angular, Node, Typescript, Python, GoLang, Cloud and DevOps.

Frantisek Zacek

Senior dev for IMG Arena

Almu Iturgoyen (She/her)

JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Node, ApolloClient, GraphQL

Joshua Davies (He/Him)

For the past 20 years, I've created video & image editing software that's found its way to millions of users. I'm currently immersed in AI, and comfortable with tools such as C#, Python, Unreal Engine, Unity, VR, AR, HTML & CSS, Figma, and Adobe products.

Skills: ai c# python HTML & CSS Unreal Engine unity VR AR Figma Adobe products Javascript (manageable) C++ (less preferred) Databases (less preferred)

Elizabeth Caney

I play guitar

Jeremy Keith (he/him/they)

I like to teach HTML and CSS.

Skills: html css javascript

Juan Manuel Armas (He)

I have done multiple times experience volunteering and also I'm part of several minority groups. I also open to receive some coaching too. My experience is mostly as web and graphic design.

David Currie (he/him/they)

Machine Learning Projects. I'm a data analyst/scientist who's used to working in R and Python. Excited about using data tools to help communities.

Katie Uvanovic (any)

I can help people out with SQL. I have attended codebar 4 years ago as a learner and now wish to give back.

François Sherwood (he/him)

Ontologist at Amazon Alexa

Skills: python

Javi Merino (he/him/his)

Seems like a nice initiative. Something I could help with and make a difference. I have worked as a software engineer for 13 years, but I have never taught anyone how to code.

Diana Nanuti (she/her/they/them)

I am an enthusiastic Software Development Engineer at AWS, Cambridge and mentoring is one of the most rewarding activities for me, as I experienced growth through this process as well. As hobbies, I enjoy hiking, skiing and swimming.

Lars Finlay (he)

I work at Wonderbly and would like to help coach on the evening we're hosting.

Ao Tong (he)

Hi, I'm a software development engineer focusing on cloud services.

Skills: AWS java python Shell golang

Jake Goldsmith (he/him)

I want to help mentor new coders and will be attending a session in Cambridge as a mentor.

Ferran Puig Martínez (he)

I will like to train someone that has less knowledge than me, because I begun like self-taught and I would like to have someone that could explain me all the things related of a better way. I have been a programmer for 3 years.

Mifu Suzuki

Software Engineer at Amazon.

Alin Peța (He)

Software developer for over 6 years, backend and some frontend. During my career I have met plenty of people who have switched careers into IT and I always like to share their success stories with others in order to help them get the foot in this domain.

Skills: java html css javascript python

Jamie Brown (He/Him)

Senior software engineer working at The Financial Times.

Stephen Fulljames (he/him)

Javascript/Typescript/Node engineer. Working at Wonderbly on the creation platform for personalised children's books and the customer experience to order them.

Alvaro Lopez

I am a DevOps Engineer working for a big IT consultancy company with 3 years experience. I have a degree in Computer Science and experience writing code in multiple languages and frameworks.

Christine M

Tech enthusiast passionate about empowering people to achieve their dreams.

Fritz von Scherzer (He/They)

I'd love to get more expertise as a coach. I like teaching new things to people. I have volunteer as a Mentor in the past for people who were learning how to code and were trying to get a new job in tech.

Skills: javascript React TypeScript css

Kevin Sheeran

Data science and python learning

Cyrille Berliat (He)

I'm a software engineer by training (MSc Eng.), Coded for years in PHP/SQL/JS/Java esp Android before turning to Product management. Happy to mentor beginners or career wise

Skills: php SQL JS java System design Product Management

jianghong Jiang (He)

I work as a software engineer for 20 years. I love coding and love to help people solve problem with software. I would like to share my programming knowledge to help people imporve productivity by useing programming tools.

Gareth Weaver

I'm a frontend engineer with over 12 years commercial experience.

Skills: React javascript node jQuery sass css HAML Git Gatsby Next ES6 Astro html

Matthew Lee (He/him)

I'd love to coach some students interested in python, AI, DevOps and/or AWS. I am an experienced MLOps engineer.

Skills: python AWS ai PyTorch docker Linux

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

Alisdair Tullo (he/him)

I'm a professional programmer at the University of Edinburgh and part of my job is to teach programming, mostly to beginners. One of the most rewarding experiences of my life in code was as a DjangoGirls coach, so codebar sounds great!

Skills: python java C/C++ bash javascript

Anais Trope (She/her)

I'm a front-end dev at Wonderbly, an independent publishing house. I implement features to improve our user journey + do a lot of R&D to rebuild Wonderbly's website. This has given me a unique perspective on JS frameworks which I would love to share.

matt jones (He/Him)

Makers graduate, front end/backend work, Unity games

Skills: javascript HTML/CSS unity Git github

Thomas Cave

I'm an Site Reliability Engineer so anything DevOps related (infra as code, git, cloud (mainly aws), containerisation, makefile, etc) or coding in Python/Golang backend APIs

Skills: golang python terraform AWS

Naomi Starr (she/her)

I have recently been through a career change and have started working at Hargreaves lansdown as an Android dev, after completing a 16 week bootcamp. Looking to help at events when I can.

Olly Marsters (He/him )

Passionate about diversity in tech, I work for Code First Girls, providing women and people who identify as non binary, with free coding lessons. Focused on React, I want to pay others’ help forward and share my passion for coding.

Zainab Ismail

Front-end Developer at Wonderbly. I like to use HTML/CSS/Javascript, ideally I'd feel comfortable coaching on HTML/CSS

Skills: html css React javascript

James Winters (He/Him)

Hello! I am a Software Engineer at IMG Arena. I work with Java and have some experience with Scala and Kotlin too. I am hoping to share my knowledge and help others with solving their coding problems, or just give general advice.

Jb DOYON (he/his)

I love Python at work and at home! I want to share my experience and boundless enthusiasm.

Jenny Sharp (she/her)

I was a secondary computing teacher in the UK. I am happy to volunteer as a coach. I am particularly used to the basics of Python programming & I was a software developer in Delphi (OO Pascal) and Java back in the early 2000s.

Skills: python html

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