Alumni Spotlights

When Ian Driscoll, a Lieutenant for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, was promoted into an IT role, he knew he needed to learn a whole new skill set. To gain a foundation in the cyber field, Ian chose to attend the 24-week, part-time Cybersecurity Boot Camp at UT Austin, offered in collaboration with edX. As a ...

When Lauren Weber was laid off from her job as a franchise business consultant due to the pandemic, she decided to make a career-change into tech. Within three months, Lauren was hired as a Software Test Engineer at CyberGRX. How did she switch industries so quickly with zero experience in tech? It all started when she decided to enroll in

David Amyot was lost and uninspired by the path he was taking in college and in the Army. Driven by a lifelong love of computers and enlightened by the opportunity that awaited him in programming, he discovered CodeBoxx, and sought what was offered in this 16-week bootcamp. Now a J...

A key component of most coding bootcamps is a capstone project that marks the culmination of everything students have learned. We caught up with Carrie Grossman, Frida Garcia, and Priyanka Farrell, three recent bootcamp graduates from the DigitalCrafts Full Stack Software Development Immersive to le...

Laura Brennan worked in a variety of administrative jobs (including running her own bar in France!), but she yearned for a career that would fuel her ambitions to be a creative problem-solver. Laura listened to the advice of her supportive family and enrolled in BrainStation’s Web Development Bootcamp. Even...

Rena Silverman was a journalist for 15 years before a move to California inspired her to develop her technical skill set at Berkeley UX/UI Boot Camp (offered in collaboration with edX). Three months after graduating from the program, she used her network to first land a job at Run The World as their Chief UX Writer and the...

Clovette had many years of business experience, but knew she needed stronger hard skills in order to be competitive in today’s tech sales industry. Learn how Flockjay’s online tech sales bootcamp and career services gave Clovette the in-demand skills and reinforcement she needed to land a job as an Account Executive at Zoom. Clovette...

Suchaya Rojanasuwan had the drive and the passion to work in data science, but wasn’t sure how to make the career change. Suchaya shares how the Data Science Immersive bootcamp at

For a decade, Meghan Hein traveled the world and learned many life skills, but when she was laid off from the service industry due to COVID-19, Meghan turned to Lighthouse Labs to guide her way into tech. Meghan shares how their COVID-19 Scholarship Fund made her career change possible, and what sets Lighthouse Labs remote

Madelyn Arsenault was a disheartened college student who wanted a career that she was passionate about. After speaking with satisfied Devmountain alumni and their family, Madelyn enrolled in the immersive Web Development bootcamp in Dallas, Texas. Madelyn explains how

Neha Nautiyal’s love for learning led her to enroll in the web development program at Penn Boot Camps. Although Neha loved teaching chemistry, she found a new passion and talent for web development that eventually inspired her to switch careers. Neha explains how the instructors at

Jon Mallory wasn’t satisfied with his career path in chemistry, so when he found NGT Academy, he decided to take a leap into IT and cyber security. Jon shares how a short IT course at NGT Academy convinced him to enroll in NGT Academy's remote c...

  Jake Vikoren took a break after college to figure out his next move. He started teaching himself machine learning in his spare time and once he realized he wanted to pursue it as a career, Jake enrolled in

We sat down with two Fullstack Academy Cyber Bootcamp alums to find out what it's like to work in cybersecurity today. Fabianna Rodriguez-Mercado and Sarah Gold both graduated from the

Even with 20 years teaching experience, Sarah Panaligan hit a roadblock when her music teaching positions kept getting cut out of school budgets. Sarah decided that there couldn’t be a better time to change careers and enroll in General Assembly’s

Danielle Katz was on a business track at Morningstar when she discovered her passion for coding. She spoke to leadership about switching into the tech track, and they agreed to sponsor her Fullstack Academy

After Alex Merced spent 10 years in the finance industry, he decided it was time for a remote tech job. After struggling to learn online by himself, he joined General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive Remote bootcamp. And with ...

Springboard recently launched their new UI/UX Design Bootcamp with the option to

From his time spent as a door-to-door salesman, Baba Gana always knew he wanted to be in sales, but just wasn’t sure how to make the leap from business and marketing to tech sales in Silicon Valley. His MIB advisor recomme...

Can you make it through a bootcamp even if you have no experience coding? We debrief with Ezzia, a General Assembly bootcamp graduate and awardee of the See Her Excel (SHE) Tuition Discount, just one week post-graduatio...