Student Spotlight

This post was written by Hamsa Ganesh, a graduate of our full-time immersive program. Hamsa originally worked as a designer and travelled from Pune, India to take part in our bootcamp in Fall 2015. You can learn more about her story on her Medium page.

When HackerYou first started in the fall of 2012, we offered part-time courses on one topic — Web Development. It was hosted at the Centre for Social Innovation and our students learned HTML & CSS from Wes Bos, a fantastic developer and partner of ours who…

Emily Porta is a graduate of our Spring 2014 bootcamp and just completed our part-time Ruby on Rails course. Before coming to HackerYou, Emily worked as a librarian. She’s now a Front-End Web Developer at Shift Health. You can check out her work and more of her writing here.

This post was written by Jessica Jones, a graduate of our part-time Web Development courses. This summer, she’ll be joining us as part of our Full-Time Front-End Web Development bootcamp. Her original post can be found on her Medium page here.

Simon Bloom is a graduate of our Summer 2014 bootcamp and now works as a freelance developer in Toronto. In addition to freelancing, Simon is the Co-Artistic Director of Outside the March Theatre Company and a mentor in our our part-time Web Development course. To learn more…

Rachel Park is a graduate of our inaugural Fall 2014 Design class and is a current student in our HTML & CSS class. After completing a degree in Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo, she returned to Toronto and pursued her curiosity in design. She now works at…

Gab White is a graduate of our Winter 2014 bootcamp and the first contributor to our new series, Alumni Stories. She hails from a small town in Newfoundland & Labrador and now works at a Halifax-based startup called Vendeve. In addition to being a front-end web developer, she’s a…

By HackerYou bootcamp graduate Rachel Bloom (@rachelblm)

Four cohorts have now graduated from HackerYou’s full time front-end web development bootcamp, so I decided to sit down with a few fellow bootcamp alumni to find out how life is treating them…