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Top-Class Instructors

We believe your Senior tech instructors are the single most important factor in student success, and therefore only hire and train experienced tech professionals. Their knowledge as developers ensures that our students learn skills that are current and competitive. Additionally, our PreWork program helps students with no tech knowledge to have a steady foundation for the coding bootcamp course. This way, the whole class can move at the same pace.

Our instructors keep an open line of communication throughout the course so that students are comfortable voicing their struggles or queries. Every quarter, Sabio Instructors support Sabio Fellows at a large-scale industry Hackathon. Here you can add invaluable expertise to your resume while competing for cash prizes as you get to know other members of the Sabio community.

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Sean Moran

Director of Academic Affairs
Sean, Director of Academic Affairs, is a passionate advisor with over 13 years of experience working with students in various educational environments. He has worked with students in military training, trade schools, community colleges, and universities.

Brijesh Patel

Senior Instructor
Brijesh has had almost every role under the sun before finding coding. Brijesh joined Sabio because the mission and goals aligned with his values and knew Sabio was where he wanted to grow his career. As a Senior instructor, Brijesh works to find success in all of the cohorts.

Hector Arias

Senior Instructor
Hector serves as a senior instructor at Sabio where he reaps the benefit of watching individuals transform their lives by landing jobs as software developers. Hector had dabbled with coding throughout the years to the extent of writing his thesis in computational astrophysics.

Zachary Lynch

Instructor
Zach is a full stack software engineer and instructor at Sabio. Previous to joining Sabio, he was in the US Army for 8 years serving as Squad Leader and Recon Platoon Sergeant. He enjoys providing values to students who are learning skills and starting their software careers.

Jacob Bathan

Instructor
Jacob joins Sabio as a software engineer and instructor. He has worked in many different fields before starting his career in tech. Jacob is a former U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate and X-Ray Technician. Since making his career change, he has worked mainly developing large scale applications.

Caleb Ince

Instructor
Caleb started out as a self-taught game designer. That's where he found his love for programming. After attending and graduating Sabio, he joins our team as full stack developer and instructor. Caleb loves helping others solve problems and learn to write code.

Daniel Belyeu

Instructor
Daniel spent most of his years in pursuit of a career in the music business. As another career changer in our midst, he decided to make the switch to software development. After graduating from Sabio, Daniel joins the team as an instructor for our full stack development bootcamp.
Downtown LA

Daniel Gonzalez

Senior Instructor
Danny is a senior instructor and was part of Sabio’s fourth cohort in 2014. After graduating, he worked for a start-up and developed his skills as a web developer through multiple companies. He decided to circle back to teaching because he enjoys the excitement of educating others.

Lefeba Gougis

Instructor
Lefeba joins Sabio as a software engineer and instructor. Prior to joining the Sabio team, he worked primarily in the fields of education and psychology. A former Behavioral Therapist, Researcher, and Mindfulness Teacher, Lefeba is a career changer.

Haley Stamp

Instructor
Haley is a career changer who now joins Sabio as a full stack software engineer. Previously, Haley worked in marketing where her creative side was able to flourish. Now, coding has allowed her to merge both logical and creative sides of her through problem-solving.

Selva Miranda

Instructor
Selva is a full stack software engineer with a BA in Education. She graduated from Sabio in 2017 and worked as a developer for an automotive company for a couple of years before returning to Sabio as an instructor. Selva has a passion for continuous learning, but also teaching.

Steve Snow

Instructor
After 14 years in the Air Force, an unexpected transition to be a primary care giver for a terminal family member, and time as a secondary education instructor, Steve took the opportunity to attend Sabio's bootcamp and kick off software development as a full-time endeavor.

Victor Ibasco

Instructor
Victor stumbled upon code through sheer chance... by walking into the wrong class in high school. Unfortunately, his circumstances did not allow him to dive deeper into code at the time. As a Sabio alumnus, he joins the team to help others learn to code.

Jake Kim

Instructor
Jake Kim graduated with a BS in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly. Previously, Jake worked as a project manager at a construction company. He took the chance of learning to code through Sabio and now joins us as an instructor and valued member of our engineering team.

Barnett Fischer

Instructor
Barnett is a career changer who joins the Sabio team as a full stack development instructor. Previously, Barnett worked in manufacturing for the OEM/VAR markets, designing computer mainboards and other hardware, and now he transfers his skills and love of tech to software development.

Jae Park

Instructor
Jae is a career changer. He studied music in college and was pursuing a career in the music industry but ended up in tech which he loves. A Sabio alumnus, Jae worked at Microsoft as an Azure App Service Support Engineer. As an instructor at Sabio he loves to help others solve problems with code.
Culver City/Remote

Rob Rukavina

Instructor
Rob has been working as an engineer in various capacities for many years. First serving as a steam propulsion engineer for the US Navy, he is now part of Sabio as a full stack software engineer and instructor. He believes the mind is powerful and anything is within reach.

Yashashri Patel

Instructor
Yashashri joins Sabio as an experienced technical professional. She was previously a team lead for Data Impact Solutions, now she works on developing scalable web applications and internal tools for Sabio. She loves the working environment and support she receives.

Alley Johnston

Instructor
Alley reached Sabio and programming, taking a step by step path. She first joined the Navy as an electronics technician, after which she transitioned out of the service and began gradually working her way from hardware to software test and integration, eventually venturing into development.

Damian G. Stella

Instructor
After working as an administrative assistant in the economics sector, Damian discovered his love for programming while attending a Game Jam. Damian is a Sabio graduate and is now working as an instructor here. He loves to help people and learn new things everyday.

Federico Pacenza

Instructor
Federico is a career changer who now joins Sabio as a full stack software engineer and instructor. Before taking this turn in his life by enrolling in Sabio's bootcamp, Federico studied sound engineering and worked in fields like teaching, composing, recording, and even playing live gigs.

Hernan Olmos

Instructor
Hernan Olmos joins the Sabio team as a full stack software engineer and instructor. After years of dedicating himself to the field of Opera and teaching French, he found Sabio as an opportunity to change careers. Hernan joins the team with the ambition of growing in the tech world and helping others.

Jesus Torres

Instructor
Jesus is a full stack software engineer and instructor at Sabio. Before that, he served in the U.S. Army for 6 years as a Culinary Specialist and Squad Leader. He devoted himself to making a career change into the software industry in late 2020 and has not looked back since.

Jorge Obando

Instructor
When Jorge started his career in Tech by studying Computer Science, he discovered his passion for algorithms and coding. Before becoming a member of Sabio as an engineer and instructor, he worked for over five years as a Desktop/Mobile OS and Cloud IT technical support.

Nicolas A. Prieto

Instructor
Nico Alonso is a full stack software engineer and instructor. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and prior to joining Sabio, he worked in education and the e-commerce industry. He joins the team to help others to learn to code and improve their lives through it.

Pablo Pantaleo

Instructor
Pablo is an electronic engineer who later became a professor, and has always loved programming since the mandatory classes he took at university. He worked in various fields as an engineer and taught college and high-school for a couple of years while self-learning programming.

Ramiro Diaz

Instructor
Ramiro is a full stack software developer and instructor at Sabio. Before that, he used to be an Elliotis Trading Instructor, a useful teaching experience for him today. He found his passion for programming and joined the Sabio team with the goal of helping other people make a change in their lives.

Silvio Acevedo

Instructor
While studying for a Bachelor's in Social Communications, Silvio learned many useful tools to implement in an advertising career. This lead him into programming, and he decided to switch careers to coding. Silvio was a freelancer before going through Sabio’s bootcamp.

Victoria Sanchez

Instructor
Victoria entered the tech industry by studying systems engineering and working as a QA professional, eventually discovering her passion for coding. After graduating from Sabio, she joined the team to help other students achieve their goals and find their way in the IT world.

Patricio Alves

Instructor
Patricio initiated his coding skills on high school to always orbit around tech positions. Helping others go through the bootcamp's process makes coding a growing experience for him. He sees himself in every student in a cohort, and every small win of our students truly makes his day.

Nicolas Varela

Instructor
Previously studying history to be a professor, and working as an Uber driver, he changed his life 100% after joining Sabio to become a Full Stack Software Engineer and an Instructor. He enjoys helping people to develop coding skills, in order to be prepared to land the best jobs.

Andres Correa

Instructor
Prior to joining Sabio as an Instructor, Andres worked as a collections analyst. He always had an interest for coding, and when his employment situation took a turn for the worse, Andres stumbled upon Sabio and saw the opportunity he had been looking for.
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