Peter moved to San Diego as wine tour guide from Santa Barbara in 2015. Peter completed the SoftStack Factory full time immersion program. Peter went from knowing nothing about coding, with hard work, sacrifice, learned to code. Peter now advances the curricula, leads projects and facilitators at SoftStack Factory. Peter is an example of what can be accomplished when you pour yourself into the coding process 100%.

Scott's career has been centered on bringing great products to market for longer than he'd care to admit. From a start as an impressionable software engineer wringing performance out of high-volume transaction processing systems for the credit card industry, to designing and building an award winning mobile phone, Scott ultimately started his own company providing cloud-based record label royalty software which was subsequently acquired by Sony Music.

Danilo was born and raised in San Diego and prior to discovering the world of coding taught music to elementary students in an afterschool program. He completed SSF’s Fall cohort in January 2017 and continued learning while working on various freelancing projects. He is now applying his skills as a teacher and the new skills from the program to help others dive into code and learn how to create applications.

San Diego has always been Jeanne’s home base where she cultivates relationships with members of the community from all walks of life from CEO’s to professionals to recently-homeless veterans. Her vocational and entrepreneurial experience gives Jeanne a special affinity for, and ability to communicate with, the candidates which SoftStack Factory expects to move into the digital economy.

John an Eagle Scout, attended SSF beta course, was asked to join the SSF team. At SSF honed his skills on multiple software projects, assisted on our first official cohort in 2016. He is now looking to use his newly honed skills to teach others how to code apps and get a foothold in the coding industry.

Catherine Thiemann is a non-traditional homeschooling parent who believes that tomorrow’s career paths may not be well-served by today’s “high school to college to entry level job” model. She’s excited about SoftStack Factory’s apprenticeship learning opportunity, especially for young people whose families can’t afford the high cost of a college degree. She looks forward to helping young people of color access this great gateway into the STEM-based field of mobile application programming.

Obtaining his degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Ryn has been developing software for startups, established companies, and as a freelancer. He enjoys connecting with students, and seeing them reach the ‘aha’ moment. When not in front of a terminal, Ryn enjoys guitar, community theater, and reading.