Alumni Stories

Beyond the Bootcamp: Mike Spangler, NASA

In our Beyond the Bootcamp series, we chat with members of our alumni community about their career journeys. What new roles have they taken on since graduating from Flatiron School? How did they get to where they are now? What advice do they have for new programmers following in their footsteps? Mike Spangler has had […]
Alumni Stories

Beyond the Bootcamp: Tiffany Peón, The New York Times

In our Beyond the Bootcamp series, we chat with members of our alumni community about their post-Flatiron career journeys. What new roles have they taken on? How did they get to where they are now? What advice do they have for new programmers following in their footsteps? Tiffany Peon went to Berklee College of Music, […]
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The Women Behind Learn.co

On International Women’s Day, we want to highlight the female makers who help build Learn.co. Across Learn.co, from instruction and technical support to product and engineering, women play a critical role on the platform – by infusing their ideas and hard work into each feature, by mentoring and helping students, and by providing unique perspectives […]
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How Object-Oriented Design Saved Our CSS (and Site Performance) – Part 2

Welcome to our Flatiron Engineering blog series. In this series, the engineering team behind Flatiron’s learning platform pull back the curtain and share insights into how we build our products. A few days ago, I walked you through the first steps Flatiron School's engineering team went through to overhaul the CSS in our Learn.co codebase. We covered how […]
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How Object-Oriented Design Saved Our CSS (and Site Performance) – Part 1

Welcome to our Flatiron Engineering blog series. In this series, the engineering team behind Flatiron's learning platform will pull back the curtain and share insights into how we build our products. Back in January 2016, our CSS was easily the messiest part of the Learn.co codebase… something that probably sounds familiar to many other web developers out there. […]
Alumni Stories

Beyond the Bootcamp: Steven Brooks, StreetEasy

Now, he’s the Engineering Manager for StreetEasy, one of Zillow’s New York City real estate brands.