Real-world experience working in startups and software technology

Wil H.

Afraid you might fail your classes? Do you stress over school taking away your free time? Struggling over a particular concept or problem? Or perhaps you're looking to pick up some more technical skills for your job at the office?

I've spent multiple years cultivating real-world, professional experience coding for companies like IBM and Wayfair. I know what it's like to sit in front of a computer screen for 10+ hours trying to debug a single problem. I don't want you to suffer like I did.

I want to see you succeed -- Trust me, computer science concepts can be empowering tools once you get a grasp of how to implement them.

Keep on reading if you would like to learn more about me. My passion for coding began with computer games. Around the age of 10 I began rewriting map data for one of my favorite web games. How does a ten-year-old figure out how to do this? I simply realized that the web game stored files on my local computer. Some of these files were text files, and inside the text files there was a jumble of brackets, numbers, and words. I started changing some of the words around, and also some of the numbers, then I would go back into the game and load the text file I had modified. Some characters appeared in different starting positions, and could do different moves than before! How fascinating!

Eventually my parents found out, and though I was much more interested in playing games, they insisted that I participate in after school programs like robotics and computer programming -- where we would create instruction sets for robots made of out legos to complete a series of tasks in a maze, or compete and place in statewide coding competitions.

Then before I knew it, the question of "what are you going to study in college?" came around. I had taken AP Compsci in high-school and it was the only class that I had felt a connection with the material. So I ended up going through Northeastern University's grueling five year computer science program, graduating with a Bachelor's of Scienc