Coaches

Here you can find a list of the 3528 volunteers who have coached at codebar.

If you’d like to start coaching at a workshop in person or virtually, read our teaching guide and then join us as a coach. It’s easier than you think!

Joe Cooper (he/him)
Joe Cooper (he/him)

Interested in coaching at Edinburgh events, time permitting. I am a career changer into software and since then have worked in cloud engineering, software engineering and team leadership. I have worked in Typescript, Java, Python and Perl

Benjamin Aduo (he)
Benjamin Aduo (he)

I am a software engineer from Ghana. I have worked in the tech industry for about 10 years and am currently pursuing my postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh. I want to give back to the community in terms of tutoring.

Paul Connolly (He/him/his)
Paul Connolly (He/him/his)

Actor with a background in Computer Science, particularly science communication, UI/UX, and graphic design.

Asmaa Yassin
Asmaa Yassin

I’m attending this workshop as a learner. I have experience in software engineering, mainly in .NET and web development. I’ve worked on web applications and APIs, and I’m keen to keep learning. My friend Omid, who is a coach, invited me.

BABATUNDE ESANJU (He/Him)
BABATUNDE ESANJU (He/Him)

Senior software engineer with 10 years’ experience in .NET, FinTech, and SaaS. I volunteer to mentor beginners, review code, and support underrepresented people building confidence and real-world engineering skills.

Skills: html css .NET MSSQL database software engineering Web Development.

Manoj Ravi (He/Him)
Manoj Ravi (He/Him)

Lead ML Engineer with 10+ years building production AI systems. Expertise in Python, NLP, LLMs, RAG, computer vision & MLOps. Currently at a London AI startup delivering ML solutions for enterprise clients on AWS & Azure.

Skills: python data science machine learning llm AI Agents AWS Azure

Nwani Victory (he/him)
Nwani Victory (he/him)

I’m eager to volunteer as a coach to help students learn about cloud deployments and web practices, using my experience as a Cloud Mentor for the Google Africa Developer program, where I guided participants toward Google Cloud certification.

Skills: React AWS devops Technical Writing frontend html Svelte Vue ai OpenAI google cloud Next.js Azure python

Simon Hafner (He/him)
Simon Hafner (He/him)

I've seen most things backend.

Skills: Android kotlin Jetpack Compose rust Scala Haskell PureScript javascript

Luna De Ferrari (she)
Luna De Ferrari (she)

Python student, R teacher.

Peter Warner-Medley (he/him)
Peter Warner-Medley (he/him)

General data/platform/backend bod. Lover of teaching and making tech look a bit less like me (I am a white dude 😬)

Skills: python AWS databases/SQL javascript/typescript networking/infrastructure cloud infrastructure CS basics gcp kotlin React JVM

Zsolt Sztupak (he, they)
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: ruby Ruby on Rails spring-boot Android html css java devops Ansible terraform AWS digitalocean docker kubernetes c c++ c# Haskell x86 assembly algorithms functional programming Vanilla javascript

Michael Mulqueen (He/him)
Michael Mulqueen (He/him)

Interested in helping with anything. Professional fullstack dev: HTML, CSS, JS, SVG, Python, SQL. Also ops/sysadmin stuff. Mostly self taught, self-employed, career changer.

Skills: python html css javascript vue.js svg TypeScript Flask SQL AWS docker Linux django Ansible

Nazar Hussain
Nazar Hussain

I am an experienced developer, programmer and technical designer. I possess a strong programming and development background with knowledge of all aspects of overseeing and developing projects.

Skills: nodejs ruby web backend blockchain

Jal Ridley (she/her)
Jal Ridley (she/her)

I am a career changer from musician => frontend developer and have 3-4 years of professional experience. I am excited to mentor, meet more techies, and learn from others.

Skills: JS React TypeScript tailwind agentic AI html Vue AI workflows

Andrew France (he)
Andrew France (he)

I'm a freelance web developer mainly working with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Elixir but also do data modelling, SQL (Postgres), Javascript (jQuery, VueJS), and CSS.

Skills: ruby rails Elixir PostgreSQL javascript jQuery VueJs html css vim Linux Ubuntu database

Tim Martin (he/his/him)
Tim Martin (he/his/him)

I've done a bit of everything from low-level network protocols in C to React.js front-end work. Right now I'm doing full-stack development with Python on the back-end and a React front-end. My strongest expertise is in Python.

Skills: python c++ rust React

Nick Goodall
Nick Goodall

Tracking electricity prices, rebuilding a boat. Mostly work in Ruby & Javascript, programming for ~13 years.

Sophia Karski (She/Her/They)
Sophia Karski (She/Her/They)

Having just completed a course in front-end web development with CodeFirst: Girls, I would like to put these skills into practise and learn more about coding and technology. I also love the coding community and would like to meet some people on the way.

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman (he/him)
Praveen Kumar Purushothaman (he/him)

I am a passionate full stack web development mentor and I heard from my friend that I could volunteer here as a coach. I do wear a lot of hats like Cat Lover, Cook, Web Dev, Cloud Comp Consultant, Tech Blogger, etc. This is me: https://praveen.science/.

Skills: React JS node JS javascript Front End php MySql Full Stack Bootstrap github

Ademola Fabuyi (he)
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: python javascript TypeScript React SQL cdk Jest css html

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