Teaching
Classrooms, mentoring and community
Since 2022 I've always had one foot in teaching — a formal classroom, mentoring student projects, or just sitting down to review someone's code. Teaching something back is the fastest way to find out how well you actually understand it.
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Jan 2024 — now
Programming instructor — VTC Academy2 photos Teaching on the Advanced Fullstack Software Engineering program: JavaScript/TypeScript, front-end and back-end web, database design, cloud deployment and software architecture, plus the Python (FastAPI), React Native and DevOps modules. Mentoring students through real-world architecture and performance work; co-authored the material shared across the programs.
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Aug 2022 — Sep 2023
Mentor & software engineer — ITSS Training1 photo
- Coached student teams through full-stack projects (MEAN & MERN).
- Mentored the team behind iPic, a Pinterest-inspired social app — architecture, Docker, CI/CD on GCP. It won “Best Project of the Course”.
- Led Web3 and blockchain R&D with Solidity and NestJS microservices.
- Guided the mobile release process.
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Community
Core member — Runway1 photo Community coding events: Codeathon, QuanQuanGCP, Livecode, plus a handful of open-source initiatives.
At VTC Academy
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At VTC Academy
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Mentoring student teams