Meet our
Instructors
Instructors
The key to great training?
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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Irvine
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Culver City/Remote
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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.
