Michael Bethencourt — CTO, Lead Instructor at Kickstart Coding

About Michael Bethencourt

Michael Bethencourt is CTO, Lead Instructor at Kickstart Coding. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States.

I split my time between teaching people to code and day-dreaming about a gleaming Star Trek-like future. My favorite challenge is solving tough architecture problems in a truly "full stack way", where finding a simple and maintainable solution requires both smarter JavaScript and lower-level back-end data tweaks. Small data is a lot bigger than people think! I teach full stack web development, guiding students in the journey to build up coding skills necessary for entry-level positions in the industry. I'm super passionate about brain dumping my experience and computing knowledge, so if this sounds interesting to you, message me! (I reply to humans!)

Skills

Curriculum
Teaching
Computer Science Education

Additional experience

Development Team Lead
Kickstart Coding
November 2021 – December 2022

Education

BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Current role

Title: CTO, Lead Instructor
Company: Kickstart Coding
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Started: December 2020

About Kickstart Coding

Kickstart Coding is a coding academy that is truly committed to making tech accessible to everyone through rigorous courses that offer part-time, flexible scheduling, and much, much more affordable costs. About us: Finally, an affordable, flexible coding academy bootcamp! Keep your day job and save money as you kickstart your coding career. In intensive, part-time classes you collaborate on projects to learn the most in-demand tech like Python and React from the top instructors at Kickstart Coding. Kickstart Coding is open to both beginners AND pros, and as it is priced at only 1/3rd - 1/6th the cost of a comparable full stack web development program, the classes make full stack web development accessible to everyone. The instructors combine their engineering experience at top companies with experience and passion for teaching, providing students the tools to accelerate or change their careers. Python and React.js are taught in rigorous full stack classes that push your limits as an individual as well as your capacity to collaborate in a team. By the end of both courses in our immersive, inclusive curriculum, students have built a total of 4 open-ended portfolio-defining projects, contributed as a software professional to open source code, and learned how to build web apps from start to finish using the best stacks to learn for 2018 and beyond. Kickstart coding makes the entire experience easy and seamless. You don't even need a laptop: We hook you up with a ready-to-go dev laptop on Day 1 at no additional cost. Students find it the most attractive coding bootcamp for serious learners with real-life responsibilities, or to focus on building up skills in the the cutting edge tech that Bay Area companies require the most.

Industry: Professional Training and Coaching
Company size: 2-10
Website: kickstartcoding.com

About Michael Bethencourt

Skills

Additional experience

Development Team Lead

Education