Alumni Stories

Happy 2020! With a new decade comes a future rife with opportunities, and we're proud to help our students advance their careers and build futures in tech. To usher in the new year, we're celebrating our alumni who have changed things—and are optimistic about the future of tech. We'll be chatting with our alums to […]

“I committed to not giving up when life got challenging.” // Meet Flatiron Grad and Young Consulting Software Engineer Burak Kocak! He left Turkey for a better life and worked many jobs to support his family along the way. Then, his wife suggested coding as a great fit. So after their second child came along, […]

Online student Anthony Harvey has wowed his instructors all through his studies with his strong skills. Leaving a 13-year career in real estate finance to follow his passion to learn to code, Anthony has steadily progressed through the Flatiron program over a year while raising a family and suffering – and overcoming – personal setbacks. […]

“You owe it to yourself to share your story with other people, whether or not the result is a job or an interview.” // Meet Flatiron School grad and UI/UX Salesforce Designer Jazmine Llanes! When deciding to career pivot, she desired a path that included storytelling, creativity, and analytics. She was excited and surprised UI/UX […]

WeWork's first Flatiron hires! // Martina Weidenbaum left her first interview with WeWork excited about the prospect of working for a place whose mission made her feel like she was joining a movement rather than just a company. "I hoped that by being part of that team, I could live that mission and be part […]

“I got an interview with a company just because I asked a stranger to meet me for coffee. After our coffee, he went to his boss and they went to HR so they could push my application through when it would have been tossed.” Meet former English Professor Emily Morgan, who discovered and fell in […]