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40 Cards in this Set
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Andres (Ahn-dress) "Around Andre (An-dray)" De Jesus Pinero From Puerto Rico Moved to NY 1y ago Computer Engineering BG Does big data for an insurance company Wants to become a big data dev but didn't get the skills in college Fun Fact: Enjoys boxing, jogging, dancing |
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Brian "Big Bri" Nichols From Westchester NY Likes making things Gamer Likes making games Writer, Photographer (NYT, People Mag) -- hopes to gain the skills be able to help grow their web presence in a meaningful way |
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Dennis van der Staay Fairfield County CT ECE major Commodities trader Became interested in software dev due to impact of big data and machine learning Friends in tech royalty companies talked highly of bootcamps Likes Fullstack's project time and location Fun Fact: Grew up in Straya (AU???) until age 11 |
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Artoym (Artome) "Adventurous Arty" Toupchienko From Ukraine Moved to US at age 8 Wants to be a software dev who can create his own programs and know his way around a computer Fun Fact: Enjoys playing/watching soccer/hockey and playing video games |
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Jenny "Jubilant Jenny" Chan From Brooklyn Works as a tech recruiter in FiDi hiring software devs -- made her realize they really love their jobs and she doesn't Fun Fact: Loves traveling; visited over 15-20 different countries (just returned from Rio Olympics) |
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Reico "Roaring Reico" Lee From Hong Kong Just graduated from UBC in Vancouver (Marketing major) Started coding for fun this summer while considering career options Wants to do useful things for people around the world using software dev Fun Fact: Loves playing soccer (physically or video games eg FIFA'17) Fav team: FC Barcelona Fav players: Iniesta, Messi |
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Mitch "Magnificent Mitch" Kosowski From West Virginia Options trader for 4y in Chicago Masters in Robotics at CMU (alma mater) Focused on systems-e and mech-e Fun Fact: Loves video games, esp. DOTA 2, CS (doesn't have much time to play but still "follows the scene") Went to CS tourney at Barclays Center in September |
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Evan "Electric Evan" Scribner-MacLean From New Hampshire Moved to NYC 1y ago Worked as tech recruiter; was more interested the jobs he was recruiting for than his own Likes FS rep and what its alums have to say Fun Fact: Coached HS debate, v interested in policy debate |
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Eric "Excited Eric" Rainville Burlington VT UVT -- Math and Linguistics for 2y Studied coding for 1y Hopes FS will jumpstart pro dev career Fun Fact: PC gamer and biker and does musicals |
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Colin "Curmudgeonly Colin" Jaffe (Jaffy) From Boston Lived in NY area for 6y Wants to do FS to get back into coding (hasn't done in 20y) and to get higher paying job Has had "a lot of weird jobs", e.g. debt collector, pro poker player **Got in off waitlist at last minute** (skipped Foundations???) Fun Fact: Balloon Artist (Family Fun nights at restaurants, "twists" (industry lingo?!) at weekend bday parties) |
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Jeffrey "Jolly Jeff" Horn From Ridgewood NJ Moved to NYC in June Just graduated Wheaton College with BA in Music Found coding too late in college career Attended Bootcamp Prep in Sept Fun Fact: Loves building computers -- let him know if you want advice or hardware help |
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Steve "Soccer Steve" Kuo Grew up in Closter NJ Originally studied to become dentist (took DDT exam back in June) Realized he had a lot of free time -- decided to try something new (Codecademy Ruby and JS) and fell in love Came to FS based on its rep Interested to see how coding will help his career and he might even stick with it(?!) because the culture seems more fun Fun Fact: Loves watching and playing soccer since childhood -- lifelong Liverpool fan; has a Liverpool jersey problem (owns 4 or 5) |
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Aryeh (Ari) "Amused Aryeh" Harris (Like "aria" but with an 'eh' sound) Passaic NJ 21yo Wants to further programming knowledge -- "make the passion grow" Wants to be able to support his future family and do something he enjoys Just graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson U (Teaneck NJ) |
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Ian "Iivil Ian" Munro From Harleysville PA Lived in Brooklyn for 6y In music ed, tech, composition for last 4y after grad school Always loved creating with computers and coding Hopes to combine love of education and computers and coding Fun Fact: Loves cooking, making his own bitters and curry paste -- let him know if you want to talk mortars and pestles |
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Sam "Super Sam" Wheeler From Maine Living in Brooklyn for 6mo Graduated college in CT last year 23yo Worked at Bloomberg at Princeton for 1y as data analyst; not for him Now works at restaurant Messed around with Python and JS at Codecademy and work Fun Fact: Plays guitar |
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James (Jimmy) "Justified Jimmy" DiColandrea From Queens NY Coaching a Brooklyn HS speech and debate team Got into coding ~2y ago because he wanted to make games -- fell into (opposite of vicious?) cycle Fun Fact: Knows a surprising amount of "comic book stuff" A "more interesting" fact: Has never seen GoT |
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Sean "SpoOOoky Sean" Martin Born and raised in Brooklyn NY 29yo Really enjoyed programming in vocational HS (his trade was CS) Didn't continue in college bc job market was considered risky at the time; didn't think he could be employed w/o work exp Studied Accounting; CPA for 6y in Real Estate Fun Fact: Likes biking; going on a bike tour in the Bronx in October Practices Muay Thai Has a twin brother who went to a coding bootcamp last year |
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Robbyn "Running Robbyn" Tongue From NH Moved to NY 12y ago to study music Manhattan School of Music -- Jazz Sax Performance Moved to NJ with wife 3y ago Enjoys tech and intersection between music and tech Started coding 1y ago Fun Fact: Dad for 1.5y -- spends most of his free time hanging out with his son |
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Adam "Amorous Adam" Intrator |
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Anuj (Ah-NOOJ) "Awesome Anuj" Shah |
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Benjamin "Benevolent Ben" Saphier |
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Benjamin "Boss Ben" Zurkow |
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Bogdan "Brave Bogdan" Polovko |
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Charity "Creative Charity" Cocino |
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Damon "Daring Damon" Ye |
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Daniel "Dorky Dan" Kang |
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David "Dog-walking Dave" F Rhodes Did Jr phase with 1609 previously The one with The Dog |
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David "Dapper David" Godow |
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Edward "Elevated Ed" Hill |
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James "Jokester James" Oh |
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Jason "Jittery Jason" Lam |
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Jimmy "Jammin' Jimmy" Wang |
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John "Jumping John" Yom |
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Mazhar (rhymes with Bazaar) "Magical Mazhar" Buttar |
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Ming Tung "Mystic Ming" Wong |
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Minho (Milo??) "Marvelous Milo" Kang |
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Patryk "Practical Patryk" Chmura (rhymes with "Kimura") |
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Richard "Richie Rich" Shyong |
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Tae Hoon "Tall Tae Hoon" Lee (Teh Hoon -- ooh is shorter than in "moon") |
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Tedman "Tenacious Ted" Hsu |
