Alumni Stories

“All students can  – and deserve to if they want to  – learn to code.” Online Graduate Katleiah Ramos has studied Dark Matter, taught kids to code, and earned three college degrees! She has boldly networked while looking for her first coding job, and has great things to share on those experiences. You learned coding […]

“The future of space exploration will certainly depend on software engineers and developers as much as aerospace engineers and research scientists.” Harris Haynes, aerospace engineer and recent Flatiron School graduate, on the time and space it took for him to learn to code, with some universal networking advice. Amid your extraordinary career in the aerospace […]

From Basketball to Big Data… “It’s okay if it feels impossible in the beginning you have to remind yourself it’s brand new and to build skill sets take time and practice.” //   Meet Flatiron School Grad Sabatino Chen!  He majored in math and then went on to play professional basketball in Asia.  He completed […]

“If I were in the market again, I would spend more time on networking than on anything else.” This month we feature a profile on Flatiron School graduate Denis Bondin. He started in the jewelry business, became a trader, discovered coding, and just landed his dream job at Bloomberg within five months of finishing Flatiron […]

From Houston Healthcare to Energy Engineer… “I see coding as a different puzzle everyday. Here is this jumbled picture, and it's up to you to straighten everything out, and rearrange the pieces to make a masterpiece!” // Meet Sam Roberts, Flatiron School Alum and Petro.ai Developer! He worked in the Healthcare industry for years but […]

On being a no-brainer hire… // When Yamini first heard about a job opportunity as a Client Solutions Engineer at Updater, she radiated with excitement while discussing it with her coach. This was the role and the company that Yamini was made for, and she wanted to make sure they saw her as a "no-brainer" […]