Meet the
Sabio Team

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Administration
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Engineering
Liliana Monge

Liliana Aide Monge

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CEO/Co-Founder

Liliana is a social entrepreneur that believes in the power of the <script> tag. Coming from an economic development background, she found it important to find opportunities that empowered the community. Sabio allows individuals to transform their lives through their careers.

Gregorio Rojas

Gregorio Rojas

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CTO/Co-founder/Head Instructor
CTO/Co-founder
Head Instructor

Gregorio is an industry veteran and co-founder of Sabio. Through Sabio, Gregorio provides an opportunity for more people of diverse backgrounds to break into careers in tech as software developers. Since 2013, Gregorio has led over 800 individuals to change their careers.

Claudia Monge

Claudia Monge

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Chief Operations Officer

Claudia acts as the engine behind Sabio’s administrative needs. After more than 18 years of experience, Claudia joined Sabio to create an administrative structure that would allow for scalable growth. She enjoys being part of an org that is invested in the livelihood of others.

Kelly Hernandez

Kelly Hernandez

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Accounting Manager

Kelly started with Sabio when she was a college student. After graduating and gaining experience in the industry, she came back to Sabio as an Accounting Manager. She thoroughly enjoys Sabio’s mission to empower career changers in tech and is happy to be back at Sabio!

Yadira Ramos

Yadira Ramos

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Compliance Officer

Yadira is essential in supporting Sabio’s administrative needs. She helps manage important programs such as the VET TEC, Gi BIll, and the BPPE certification. She also supports fellows through their enrollment journey into Sabio. She is passionate about helping.

Sean Moran

Sean Moran

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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.

Sean Moran

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.

Alexa Azinger

Alexa Azinger

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Director of Admissions

Alexa is an advocate for education and investing into students. She finds great power in enabling students to find success through tools and resources. She enjoys working at Sabio as an admission consultant because she can empower students to find successful careers in tech.

Babar Ali

Babar Ali

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Director of Admissions

Ali is a professional in education with a background working in colleges. He studied psychology in UC Davis because he wanted to help people accomplish life goals. Ali's passion for education is rooted from his experience in college and getting guidance when he needed it most.

Meg Black

Meg Black

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Director of Veteran Admissions and Affairs

Prior to joining Sabio, Meg worked in admissions at Bethany College and with veterans at the Wounded Warrior Project. She also served in the Army as a Platoon Leader. Her mission is to connect, serve and empower veterans through higher education.

Meg Black

Meg Black

Director of Veteran Admissions and Affairs

Prior to joining Sabio, Meg worked in admissions at Bethany College and with veterans at the Wounded Warrior Project. She also served in the Army as a Platoon Leader. Her mission is to connect, serve and empower veterans through higher education.

Rocco Sambucci

Rocco Sambucci

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Senior Admissions Counselor

After receiving his BA and MS in Psychology, Rocco became a professor at Broward College and Keiser University. He has dedicated his career to college admissions. His passion for education has helped set many students down their path to success.

Gina Britton

Gina Britton

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Admissions Counselor

Gina has worked in admissions for several years, providing guidance to students as they navigate the educational process. She joined Sabio after working for a digital marketing company where she gained an in-depth understanding of the importance of software engineers.

Jennifer Krupp

Jennifer Krupp

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Admissions Counselor

Jennifer Krupp is an admissions and enrollment management professional with over a decade of experience in her field, who now joins Sabio as an Admissions Counselor. Before that, she has worked in similar positions both in higher education and in the private school sector.

Nancy Her

Nancy Her

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Career Counselor

Nancy joins Sabio as a Career Counselor to provide professional career coaching to all students in a student-centric way that will support students to find a career upon completing their program at Sabio. For years, Nancy has been an influential leader in the higher education industry.

Lucas Nevins

Lucas Nevins

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Technical Recruiter/Career Coach

Lucas is a proud Navy Veteran. He is a results-driven professional who has built a powerful track record of delivering key results necessary for teams and organizations to achieve new levels of performance. His background includes 15+ years of Senior level leadership experience.

Lucas Nevins

Lucas Nevins

Technical Recruiter/Career Coach

Lucas is a proud Navy Veteran. He is a results-driven professional who has built a powerful track record of delivering key results necessary for teams and organizations to achieve new levels of performance. His background includes 15+ years of Senior level leadership experience.

Miguel Ferreira

Miguel Ferreira

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UI/UX Designer

Miguel is a creative who appreciates creating a design that is going to improve an experience. He graduated from the Caracas Design Institute in 2012 and has a Masters Degree in UX/UI App Design. At Sabio, Miguel helps with all designs from the website to marketing materials.

Hector Arias

Hector Arias

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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.

Danny Gonzalez

Danny Gonzalez

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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.

Brijesh Patel

Brijesh Patel

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Senior Instructor/Engineer

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.

Jae Park

Jae Park

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Senior Instructor

Jae studied music in college and was pursuing a career in the music industry but ended up in tech which he loves. Since graduating Sabio, Jae worked at Microsoft as an Azure App Service Support Engineer. Now an instructor at Sabio he is also an early member of a fintech startup.

Steve Snow

Steve Snow

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Senior 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.

Steve Snow

Steve Snow

Senior 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.

Nicolas Alonso Prieto

Nicolas Alonso Prieto

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Nico Alonso joins the Sabio team as a 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.

Zachary Lynch

Zachary Lynch

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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.

Zachary Lynch

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.

Selva Miranda

Selva Miranda

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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.

Daniel Belyeu

Daniel Belyeu

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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.

Barnett Fischer

Barnett Fischer

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Instructor

Before joining the Sabio team as a full stack development instructor, Barnett worked in manufacturing for the OEM/VAR markets, designing computer mainboards and other hardware. Now, he transfers his skills and love of tech to software development.

Haley Stamp

Haley Stamp

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Software Engineer/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.

Rob Rukavina

Rob Rukavina

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Software Engineer/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.

Rob Rukavina

Rob Rukavina

Software Engineer/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

Yashashri Patel

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Software Engineer/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.

Jacob Bathan

Jacob Bathan

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Jacob has worked in many different fields before eventually starting his career in tech. He 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.

Jacob Bathan

Jacob Bathan

Software Engineer/Instructor

Jacob has worked in many different fields before eventually starting his career in tech. He 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.

Victor Ibasco

Victor Ibasco

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Software Engineer/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.

Lefeba Gougis

Lefeba Gougis

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Software Engineer/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.

Jake Kim

Jake Kim

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Before programming, Jake graduated with a BS in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly and 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.

Caleb Ince

Caleb Ince

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Software Engineer/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.

Hernan Olmos

Hernan Olmos

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Software Engineer/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 in Sabio an opportunity to change careers. Hernan's ambition is to grow in the tech world and help others.

Silvio Acevedo

Silvio Acevedo

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Software Engineer/Instructor

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

Damian Guido Stella

Damian Guido Stella

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Damian is a career changer. After working as an administrative assistant, he 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.

Pablo Pantaleo

Pablo Pantaleo

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Software Engineer/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.

Jesus Torres

Jesus Torres

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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.

Jesus Torres

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

Jorge Obando

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Software Engineer/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.

Federico Pacenza

Federico Pacenza

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Software Engineer/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.

Ramiro Diaz

Ramiro Diaz

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Software Engineer/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 others change their lives.

Alley Johnston

Alley Johnston

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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.

Alley Johnston

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.

Victoria Sanchez

Victoria Sanchez

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Victoria is a career changer who entered the tech industry by studying systems engineering and working as a QA professional on a government project in her city. While studying and working in this role, she discovered her passion for coding through self-taught courses.

Patricio Alves

Patricio Alves

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Software Engineer/Instructor

Patricio initiated his coding skills on high school to always orbit around tech positions but never really settling into one. Varying from tech support, working at an NGO as executive assistant and finally as a recruiter, he realized that human connections are what bring color to our days.

Andres Correa

Andres Correa

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Instructor

Andres Correa joins the Sabio team as an Instructor. He has a passion for challenges and enjoys the learning experience that these offer. After graduating from Sabio's bootcamp, he now enjoys helping people go through this awesome journey that is learning to code.

Nicolas Varela

Nicolas Varela

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Instructor

Previously studying history to be a professor, and at the same time working as Uber driver, he changed his life 100% after joining Sabio to be an instructor. He believes that changing his carrer to the IT industry and joining Sabio changed his life and the future of his family.

Attend an Info Session today!

During our Info Sessions you will learn all about our program, and also get to speak with Sabio team members. In addition, every week you get to hear directly from recent grads that are now thriving in tech.

Info Sessions are your chance to meet our instructors via Zoom and to get an overview of what Sabio and Alliant International University have to offer from our innovative program. It’s a warm environment where you can ask questions and get over any fears or hesitancy you may be experiencing.
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