We’re not just developers. We’re a group of experienced educators and engineers who love to teach as much as we love to code. After years of mentoring students and writing curriculum, we know how to help students succeed.
CO-FOUNDER + LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Before founding Rithm school, I was a Lead Instructor at two other web development bootcamps. Over the course of the last 10 years, I’ve helped support hundreds of students through full-time immersive programs. I’m passionate about writing curriculum and teaching through examples to make complex concepts easily accessible.
VP of Education + Lead Instructor
INSTRUCTOR / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
INSTRUCTOR / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Throughout my career in higher education, I created and updated training materials on a variety of topics and conducted classroom and virtual training to hundreds of colleagues. After making a career pivot to tech, I jumped at the opportunity to become part of Rithm School’s instruction team. I spent a year as a teaching assistant, shadowing and learning from our very best educators and have since become an instructor.
I spent almost 10 years as a higher education professional before learning how to write a single line of code. My interest in development began at UC Berkeley where I managed the Federal Work-Study Program. I served as the functional expert for the program, but over time I became increasingly fascinated with the technical side of the program. I became curious about coding and began teaching myself JavaScript in my spare time and eventually decided I wanted to learn how to design and build web applications. I joined the full stack web development program at Rithm School and have been building ever since!
TEACHING ASSISTANT / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
TEACHING ASSISTANT / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
TEACHING ASSISTANT / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
TEACHING ASSISTANT / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
My love of teaching traces back to high school, when I worked as a piano and music theory teacher at a small music school in my hometown. About ten years ago, a dual interest in the artistic and practical possibilities of rapid prototyping technologies drew me into the makerspace movement, where I began teaching safety and operations courses on welding, CNC machining, laser cutting, 3D printing, and more. (Find me volunteering at a manufacturing education non-profit in San Francisco to this day!) I find incredible joy in helping a student realize their dreams through education, and on that front, I can’t imagine a better place to be than Rithm School.
My first professional forays into code sprang from my work in CNC machining. I’ve also worked on a variety of one-off projects over the years, such as building a responsive chatbot with JavaScript using Node.js. In early 2022, I took the plunge, applied to Rithm’s full-stack web development program, and haven’t looked back. My favorite aspect of software engineering is the limitless potential to collaborate and learn — current personal areas of focus and development are data structures & algorithms, security, and lower level languages.
TEACHING ASSISTANT / SOFTWARE ENGINEER
GUEST LECTURER
I’m a web developer with a serious love for teaching. I’ve spent the last few years teaching hundreds of people to program at immersive bootcamp programs like General Assembly and Galvanize. Most recently I’ve moved my teaching online with the launch of The Web Developer Bootcamp, Udemy’s highest rated web development course.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE MANAGER
VP of Growth and Operations
All of my career has been at the intersection of technology, education and people. I started out in customer success at Apple and people operations at 2U before moving into operations at an artificial intelligence Silicon Valley startup. After helping scale the team and client base there, I joined a small company coaching hundreds of job-seeking software engineers in the heart of San Francisco. In 2018, I co-founded WorkWell, where we created an empowered community of thousands of values-driven career changers and professionals through our events and job search accelerator. I am motivated by strategizing creative ways to grow a mission-driven business and am deeply inspired by witnessing people express their gifts and passions through their work.
Director of Career Services
“I thought after reading so many glowing reviews that Rithm wouldn’t live up to the hype, but it really is as incredible as others say! I received an offer at my dream company, The New York Times, 3 weeks after graduating from Rithm, which I truly don’t think would have happened if I hadn’t attended Rithm School.”
Claire Casey, Software Engineer, Graduate Class of 2021
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