Primary Job Title Co-Founder, CEO, and Instructor Primary Organization CodingNomads
Location Truckee, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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I currently serve as Co-Founder, CEO, and Lead Instructor for CodingNomads. Our mission is to help students of all backgrounds, in all locations, gain access to valuable technical skills and a thriving global job market for software engineers. At CodingNomads, we believe that learning software development skills can radically alter lives for the
better. We make learning to code as exciting, accessible, and epic as possible. Our students gain a distinct advantage over most boot camp grads by learning Java and Python development, which remain the two of the most in-demand programming languages year after year.
I previously served as a Senior Solutions Architect for Driven Inc, formerly Concurrent Inc, the minds behind Cascading. Cascading is among the most widely used and deployed technology for "Big Data" applications with more than 280,000+ user downloads per month, at last count. Cascading is used by thousands of data-driven businesses including Capital One, RBC, Twitter, eBay, Climate Corp, NOKIA, Telefonica, Etsy, and Spotify. Cascading is the de-facto application framework for building and deploying large scale data processing applications.
I bring my industry expertise, my love of travel, and my passion for sharing these skills together at CodingNomads to deliver the best possible learning experience and professional outcome for my students and clients.
The majority of my experience lies in the following areas:
- Java Software Development and Training
- Cascading, Lingual, Hive, Hadoop, AWS EMR
- Extensive RESTful platform API development & integrations
- Java, Scala, JavaScript, PHP, C#, VB, C++, ColdFusion, bash
- J2EE, Spring, Lift, Laravel, CakePHP, .NET
- JPA, Hibernate, MyBatis, Jackson, Maven, Gradle
- AWS, Linux, Windows, DB server administration
- Redshift, Vertica, Hive, Teradata, MySQL, SQLServer, Apache Lucene/Solr, Redis
- HTML, HTML5, CSS, Adobe Creative Suite
Specialties: Data-processing systems architecture. API development.
