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Every member of the Formation network brings a different background and hard-won expertise — all aimed precisely at your next offer.

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Wil Gatlin\ \ Senior Software Engineer \ \ 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a top-tier tech company\ \ Landed at Meta in August 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilgatlin/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Farnoosh Abrishamkarzadeh\ \ Software Engineer \ \ 3 years of experience in Software Engineering\ \ Started their engineering career at Coinbase\ \ Placed at Meta in 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/farnoosh-abrishamkar/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jedidiah Akano\ \ Software Engineer \ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a new company and role\ \ Landed at Applied Intuition in May 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedidiah-akano/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Dalila Nelson\ \ SDE II \ \ 7+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a FAANG company\ \ Landed at Amazon in April 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalilanelson/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Myranda Palomino\ \ Rotational Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Worked with multiple startups as a contract SWE\ \ Joined to land a role at a top-tier company\ \ Placed at Meta in 2023\ \ \ \ Formation’s emphasis on repetition and structured approach significantly improved my performance in actual interviews.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/myranda-palomino-how-i-landed-a-role-as-a-software-engineer-at-meta-with-formation/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Varun Kulkarni\ \ Senior Software Engineer \ \ 16+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to break into a cutting edge company\ \ Landed at NVIDIA in April 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunkulkarni/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ John Chen\ \ Backend Engineer II \ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a prestigious role\ \ Landed at HashiCorp in April 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchenm/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Sai Poruri\ \ IC5 Engineer \ \ 6+ years of experience in software engineering\ \ Joined Formation to break into a FAANG company\ \ Landed at Meta in March 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saiporuri/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Arjun Kaul\ \ Software Engineer, L5 \ \ 4+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to transition from the finance industry to tech\ \ Landed at Amazon in March 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaul1/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Roy Garcia\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Former Tesla & Northrop Grumman SWE\ \ Wanted to work on large-scale systems\ \ Placed at Meta in 2023\ \ \ \ I improved significantly with Formation. I went from freezing up and being super anxious about these interviews to being really confident in them. \ \ Read his story](/content/blog/roy-garcia-success-story/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Adam Miller\ \ Engineering Manager @ Square\ \ 16+ years of experience in software engineering\ \ Joined Formation to level up tech in an engineering manager role\ \ Landed at Square in November 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadam-miller/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Amaya Agha\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ 14+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a top-tier tech company\ \ Landed at Meta in November 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amaya-agha/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Eddie Melo\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox\ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a dream company\ \ Landed at Roblox in October 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heriberto-melo/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jacob Dowdle\ \ Rotational Engineer @ Meta\ \ 3+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to break into tech and work on meaningful projects\ \ Landed at Meta in October 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobdowdle/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Nicole Miller\ \ Software Engineer @ Apple\ \ Worked on ATLAS Space Force contract at past role\ \ Wanted to increase comp and move out of defence\ \ Placed at Apple in 2023\ \ \ \ Formation gave me the motivation to pursue what I wanted: career development, higher compensation, and interesting technology.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/success-story-nicole-miller/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Mariah Maninang\ \ Rotational Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ 2+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to break into tech\ \ Landed at Meta in October 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariah-m/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Sodiq Lawal\ \ Rotational Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ 9+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to land in a FAANG role\ \ Landed at Meta in October 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawalsodiq/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Julio Barriga\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Paypal\ \ 3+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined to break into the tech industry and level up\ \ Landed at PayPal in September 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliodbarriga/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Aditya Arolkar\ \ Deployment Strategist @ Palantir\ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to break into a FAANG-level company\ \ Landed at Palantir in September 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaarolkar1/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Jocelyn Icaza\ \ iOS Engineer @ Realtor.com\ \ Grace Hopper bootcamp grad\ \ Wanted to land first role in tech\ \ Improved algo and system design skills\ \ \ \ I always have confidence that I can complete tasks on-the-job because of how Formation trained me.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-josie-icaza/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Alexis Olaes\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ 4+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to join a company she was passionate about\ \ Landed at Microsoft in August 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-olaes-925b7618a/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Shane Gallagher\ \ Software Development Engineer @ Amazon\ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to land in a role that enables him to learn and grow\ \ Landed at Amazon in August 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgall/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Samuel Singer\ \ Front-End Engineer \ \ 5+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to get back into a FAANG company\ \ Landed at Amazon in July 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-y-singer/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Brandon Nicklas\ \ Data Engineer \ \ 6+ years of data engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up and work on cutting edge tech\ \ Landed at Netflix in July 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-nicklas-b111736a/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Heather Barney\ \ Assoc. SWE @ Carrot Fertility\ \ Former collegiate athletics coach\ \ Bootcamp grad seeking SWE role\ \ Placed at Carrot Fertility in 2023\ \ \ \ Self-directed platforms like Leetcode can determine if your code works, but having experienced engineers point out subtle aspects went a step beyond that.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-heather-barney/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Yernat Yestekov\ \ Software Engineer \ \ 8+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a FAANG company\ \ Landed at Meta in July 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yernatyestekov/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Franklin Hernandez\ \ Principal Machine Learning Engineer @ Atlassian\ \ 6+ years of data science and machine learning experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a tech company\ \ Landed at Atlassian in July 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklinhernandez/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Andrea Garcia\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ 1+ year of software engineering experience\ \ Joined to break into tech\ \ Landed at Microsoft in June 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrygzt/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ They/Them\ \ Orion Montoya\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Gusto\ \ 8+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to break into a big company post start-ups\ \ Landed at Gusto in June 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/orionmontoya/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Brian Do\ \ Software Engineer @ Statsig\ \ Self-taught coder with Philosophy degree\ \ Wanted to work for a tech-first company\ \ Placed at Statsig in 2022\ \ \ \ I wanted to get into software engineering, I just needed the right path to entry. I tried getting a SWE job for at least 6 months with no luck before finding Formation.\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-brian-do/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Harvey Limbo\ \ Software Development Engineer \ \ 4+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation to level up into a top company\ \ Landed at Amazon in June 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvey-limbo-a10809151)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Sinuhe Guerra\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ 17+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined Formation as a Mentor, and then as a Fellow\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinuheg/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ They/Them\ \ Sofie Graham\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ 6+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined to break into “Big Tech”\ \ Placed at Meta in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofiegraham/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Drew Bartlett\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian\ \ 17 years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined to land at a top-tier company\ \ Placed at Atlassian in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewjbartlett/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Mariah Papy\ \ Software Engineer @ Google\ \ Systems Senior Associate at Net Impact\ \ Wanted to work at a top-tier tech company\ \ Placed at Google in 2022\ \ \ \ All the mock interviews I did in my Fellowship helped me see that interviewers are just like us. The person on the other side is just a human going through this, too. \ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-mariah-papy/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Connor Stauffer\ \ Software Engineer \ \ 8+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Joined to land at a FAANG company\ \ Placed at Meta in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorstauffer/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Anthony Wallace\ \ Software Engineer for AI Training Data @ Scale AI\ \ Former Navy Operations Specialist\ \ Joined to break into tech\ \ Placed at Scale AI in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonytwallace/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Mike Clarke\ \ Software Engineer, Service Capacity Management @ Meta\ \ 25 years of software engineering experience\ \ Wanted to transition from finance to tech\ \ Placed at Meta in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-g-clarke/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Rafael Segarra\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Former Zinnia & Policygenius SWE\ \ Joined to level up his career\ \ Placed at Meta in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-segarra/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Valerie Don\ \ iOS Software Engineer @ Apple\ \ • Blue Bottle Barista\ \ • Wanted to be held to a top-tier bar\ \ • Placed at Apple in 2022\ \ \ \ Formation uses a level system that allowed us to test into more and more advanced levels, which was a great gauge for tracking progress\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-valerie-don/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Patrick Mondala\ \ Software Engineer @ Google\ \ Software engineer with 3 years of experience\ \ Looking to place at a top-tier company\ \ Placed at Google in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-mondala/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Alec Inthalangsy\ \ Software Engineer @ Mailchimp\ \ Software engineer with 4+ years of experience\ \ Wanted to up-level his career\ \ Placed at Intuit Mailchimp in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aalecji/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Rosemary Liang\ \ iOS Engineer @ Realtor.com\ \ Assurance Senior at Ernst & Young\ \ Wanted to land first full-time SWE role\ \ Closed technical skill gaps with Eng. Mentors](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemaryliang18/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Anthony Benites\ \ Senior Data Engineer @ Capital One\ \ Joined Formation with 6+ years of SWE experience\ \ Wanted to close his skills gap\ \ Placed at Capital One in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthnyb/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Tiffany Grevious\ \ Apprentice Engineer @ Pinterest\ \ Self-taught engineer\ \ Wanted to land first SWE role\ \ Placed at Pinterest in 2022\ \ \ \ Formation was so well-structured and the material was very much individualized to you. It made me feel valued and like I was more than just a number.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-tiffany-grevious/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jaime Mutale\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Chegg\ \ 9+ years of software engineering experience\ \ Wanted to increase compensation\ \ Placed at Chegg in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-mutale)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Joshua Igwe\ \ Software Engineer @ JP Morgan\ \ Bootcamp grad\ \ Wanted a role where he could grow his career\ \ Placed at JP Morgan in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaigwe/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Pierre Lourens\ \ Senior Full-Stack Engineer @ Flow\ \ SWE at IBM with 2+ years of experience\ \ Wanted to build a strong network\ \ Placed at Flow in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrelourens/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ They/Them\ \ Sara Devereux\ \ Deploy @ Scale SWE\ \ Former Executive Chef\ \ Wanted to land first SWE role\ \ Placed at Cloudflare in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saradevereux/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Adam Zhu\ \ Software Engineering Intern @ Nextdoor\ \ • Computer Science Student\ \ • Wanted to land a top-tier Internship\ \ • Placed at Nextdoor in 2021\ \ \ \ The actual job interviews went almost exactly like what I had been practicing for a while in Formation\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-adam-zhu/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Shivam Patel\ \ Senior Engineer @ Draft Kings\ \ Software Engineer at Electronic Arts\ \ Wanted to increase comp. and responsibilities\ \ Placed at Draft Kings in 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivamap/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Arshiya Singh\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ Software Engineering Consultant\ \ Left consulting to land a top-tier role\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arshiyasingh/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Arthur Damm\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Full Stack SWE with 1 year experience\ \ Wanted to land a role with a bigger scope\ \ Placed at Meta in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-damm/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Austin Rochon\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Former Corps Member, Teach For America\ \ Wanted to gain confidence in interviews\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinrochon/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/They\ \ Carlitos Willis\ \ Full Stack Engineer @ Gusto\ \ UC Berkley Grad, Cognitive Science\ \ Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ Placed at Gusto in 2021\ \ \ \ Working with the Mentors helped me find my areas of insecurities but also areas of confidence.\ \ Read their story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-carlitos-willis/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Balaji Vemulapalli\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Software Engineer with 12 years of experience\ \ Sought role at high caliber eng. company\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](/content/site-root.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Bryan Tran\ \ Software Engineer @ Plaid\ \ Software engineer with 2+ years of experience\ \ Sought role at engineering-focused company\ \ Placed at Plaid in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryantranva/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Chris Guizzetti\ \ Frontend Engineer @ Snap\ \ Triplebyte Certified Front End Engineer\ \ Wanted to level up his career\ \ Placed at Snap in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherguizzetti/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Christina Tang\ \ CoreOS Engineer @ Apple\ \ Software engineering intern at T-Mobile\ \ Wanted to break into a top-tier company\ \ Placed at Apple in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangckt/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Colin Bethea\ \ Software Engineer @ Afterpay\ \ College “opt-out”\ \ Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ Placed at Afterpay in 2021\ \ \ \ During my job hunt, people at Formation were experienced and knew how to handle certain situations and helped me avoid mistakes. I’m so grateful for that.\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/colin-bethea-fellow-spotlight/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Clarence Luk\ \ Full Stack Engineer @ Quantcast\ \ Full Stack Mobile Developer Intern\ \ Wanted to land first full-time SWE role\ \ Placed at Quantcast in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarenceluk/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jacob Authier\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ B.S. in Civil Engineering\ \ Wanted to land first big role in tech\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobauthier/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jason Wang\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Data Engineer with 1 year of experience\ \ Wanted to land a full-time SWE role\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-w-31114090/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Ji En Chen\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience\ \ Wanted to work at a FAANG company\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jienchen/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Hiwot Woldeyohannes\ \ SDE II @ Amazon\ \ Started Eng. Career in Ethiopia\ \ Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2021\ \ \ \ The platform's timeline allowed me to actually enjoy the journey because I knew all the challenges and tasks I was doing were going to help me get to my end goal.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-hiwot-woldeyohannes/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Jordan Gamble\ \ Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Self-taught Full Stack Engineer \ \ Wanted to land a FAANG role\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-gamble-dev/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Juan Mendoza\ \ Software Engineer @ Square\ \ Rotational Software Developer\ \ Wanted to improve technical skills\ \ Placed at Square in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanjmendoza/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Kevin Khuong\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ Software Engineer with 1+ year of experience\ \ Wanted to break into a top tech company\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kkhuong/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Lena Kwon\ \ Software Engineer @ Google\ \ Developed app that earned 800,000+ downloads\ \ Wanted to land a role at Google\ \ Placed at Google in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-k-1b385046/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Leizle Ho\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ • Born in the Philippines\ \ • Wanted access to supportive Mentors \ \ • Placed at Facebook in 2021\ \ \ \ One of my biggest goals was to work at Facebook, so I printed out the Facebook logo and framed it. Every time I looked at it, I told myself someday I would work there.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-leizle-ho/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Liana Getkin\ \ Software Engineer @ Dropbox\ \ NYU Law School Grad, former attorney\ \ Wanted to land a top-tier role\ \ Placed at Dropbox in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lianagektin/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Martin Maza\ \ Software Engineer @ Atlassian\ \ Member of the U.S. Army Reserves\ \ Wanted to up-level his career \ \ Placed at Atlassian in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmaza/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Matt Payne\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Began career in Real Estate sales\ \ Wanted to land his first SWE role\ \ Placed at Meta in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpay/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Pooja Ghatge\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ SWE with 2 years of experience\ \ Wanted to break into a top-tier company\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja96/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Paul Lueng\ \ Software Engineer @ Airbnb\ \ SWE at an early-stage startup\ \ Wanted to accelerate growth\ \ Placed at Airbnb in 2021\ \ \ \ I learned the practical side of engineering that I was missing from my Computer Science background at Formation.\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-paul-lueng/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Shannon Brown\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ Earned Bachelor’s and Master’s in CS \ \ Wanted to break into a top tech company\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbrown2012/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Thomas Hlebowicz\ \ Software Engineer @ Palantir\ \ Investment analyst looking for big tech role\ \ Strengthened live coding interview skills\ \ Placed at Palantir in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hlebowicz-9a745a10b/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Vincent Samaco\ \ Software Engineer @ Front\ \ SWE with 8+ years of experience\ \ Wanted to land a high-impact SWE role\ \ Placed at Front in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentsamaco/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Yoichi Nagano\ \ Software Engineer @ Loom\ \ Bootcamp grad\ \ Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ Placed at Loom in 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ymnagano/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ She/Her\ \ Akyya Mayberry\ \ iOS Mobile Engineer @ VMware\ \ • Film Director\ \ • Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ • Placed at VMware in 2020\ \ \ \ I really loved the system design group sessions because I had only known about the monolithic, outdated ways of designing and managing applications.\ \ Read her story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-akyya-mayberry/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Stella Liao\ \ Software Engineer @ Formation\ \ • Contributor to open source projects\ \ • Wanted mock interviews with top engineers\ \ • Joined the Formation team!](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellaliao/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Alex Perez\ \ Software Engineer @ Gusto\ \ Bootcamp intern\ \ Wanted to strengthen his technical skills\ \ Placed at Gusto in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-perez4/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Amy Lam\ \ Senior Engineer @ HashiCorp\ \ • Learning Core Team at Ember.JS\ \ • Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ • Placed at HashiCorp in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrlam/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/They\ \ Ashley Luk\ \ Frontend Engineer @ Gusto\ \ • Contract Web Developer\ \ • Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ • Placed at Gusto in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-luk-89049092/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Justin Johnson\ \ Web Developer @ Dropbox\ \ • Bootcamp Grad\ \ • Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ • Developing the Dropbox brand\ \ \ \ Spiral Matrix flabbergasted me the first time I saw it in an interview...After Formation, I could solve it in my sleep.\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-justin-johnson/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Awuradjoa Quansah\ \ Software Engineer @ Blend\ \ • Bootcamp Grad\ \ • Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ • Placed at Blend in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/awuradjoaq/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Carolyn Chan\ \ Software Engineer @ Asana\ \ • Software Engineer at an early-stage startup\ \ • Wanted to land a top-tier role\ \ • Placed at Asana in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyngchan/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Casey Matt\ \ Software Developer @ Amazon\ \ Michigan State University Grad, Accounting\ \ Wanted to land a top-tier role\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseydmatt/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Deep Patel\ \ Forward Deployed Eng. @ Palantir\ \ • SWE at an investment group\ \ • Wanted to land at a top-tier company\ \ • Placed at Palantir in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatl/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Raymond Chen\ \ Production Engineer @ Meta\ \ • City College Student\ \ • Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ • Placed at Meta in 2020\ \ \ \ The Formation Fellowship structured the process with milestones that gave me confidence\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-raymond-chen/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Grace Chung\ \ Frontend Dev. Intern @ Shopify\ \ • Bootcamp Grad\ \ • Wanted to improve in technical interviews\ \ • Placed at Shopify in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chung-grace/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Julius Hochmuth\ \ Software Engineer @ Rockset\ \ • Contract Software Consultant\ \ • Wanted to land a top-tier role\ \ • Placed at Rockset in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhochmuth/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Malik Jean\ \ Full Stack Engineer @ Twitch\ \ Contract Javascript Dev\ \ Sought referrals into top-tier companies\ \ Placed at Twitch in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/malikxjean/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Mallory Ishaya\ \ Software Engineer @ Nextdoor\ \ UC San Diego Grad, Computer Science\ \ Wanted to improve technical skills\ \ Placed at Nextdoor in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallory-ishaya-8573b914a/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor Spotlight\ \ He/Him\ \ Kyle Gabriel\ \ Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Uber\ \ Kyle has 10+ years of experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Nextdoor, Apple, and most recently Uber, where he works as a tech lead on the Rider mobile team.\ \ \ \ I look for candidates who can clearly describe their thought process and defend the decisions that they are making.\ \ Read his story](/content/blog/fellow-spotlight-kyle-gabriel/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Pavan Reddem\ \ Software Developer @ Amazon\ \ Earned M.S. in Data Analytics Engineering\ \ Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ Placed at Amazon in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavanreddem/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Prajkta Bonde\ \ Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ • Sr. Software Engineer at New Relic\ \ • Needed to brush up on Algos and Sys. Design\ \ • Placed at Microsoft in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajkta-bonde-98279617/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Rajesh Maheswaran\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ Earned M.S. in Computer Science\ \ Wanted to gain more confidence in skills\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshmaheswaran1996/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Soubhagyasri Guddum\ \ SDE @ Microsoft\ \ • Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs\ \ • Was tired of Leetcoding\ \ • Placed at Microsoft in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/soubhagyasri-guddum-2524b11a1/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Dhivyaa Mailvaganam\ \ Software Engineer @ Nova Credit\ \ • UC Berkeley Grad, Chemical Engineering\ \ • Was tired of Leetcoding\ \ • Placed at Nova Credit in 2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhivyaa-mailvaganam/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Meagan Nolan\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ • Wellesley College Grad\ \ • Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ • Placed at Microsoft in 2020](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meagannolan/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ She/Her\ \ Swapnil Pandey\ \ Software Engineer @ Microsoft\ \ Senior Software Engineer at SAP\ \ Wanted mock interviews with top engineers\ \ Placed at Microsoft in 2020](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swapnil-pandey-59a97737/)

\ \ \ \ Alumni\ \ He/Him\ \ Chris Wilson\ \ Software Engineer @ LinkedIn\ \ • UC Berkeley Grad, Political Economy\ \ • Wanted to master CS fundamentals\ \ • Placed at LinkedIn in 2019](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwcodes/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ Adam Wolff\ \ Ex-VP of Engineering @ Robinhood\ \ Adam is the former VP of Engineering at Robinhood. Previously, he was an Engineering Director at Facebook where he helped pioneer React.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwolff/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Alejandro Marcu\ \ Software Engineer @ Figma\ \ Alejandro joins Formation with 20+ years of software engineering experience. He enjoys building frameworks, notably at Facebook where he developed tools allowing engineers to define graph database schemas and auto-generate data access code.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandromarcu/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Alex Jenkins\ \ Talent @ Ramp\ \ Alex brings over 10 years of talent and leadership recruiting experience at companies like PayPal, Twitter, Stripe, and most recently, Ramp.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aljjenkins/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Alex Reyes\ \ Diversity Technical Sourcer @ Meta\ \ Alex brings 5+ years of experience of working at both the US Air Force Reserve and Meta. He coached & mentored hundreds of Veterans and guided them to roles at Meta Platforms.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexreyes27/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Alex Staninger\ \ SDE II @ Microsoft\ \ Alex has 3+ years of experience on teams at IBM and Microsoft, where he currently works on Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstaninger/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Allen Miao\ \ Software Engineer @ Nextdoor\ \ Allen has been on Nextdoor’s core iOS Engineering team for 3 years.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-miao-78900b48/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Alvin Zablan\ \ Software Engineering Educator @ Structy\ \ Alvin brings over 7 years of software engineering experience, both in the tech industry at companies like Google and now at his own very popular education startup, Structy.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvin-zablan-b73a92117/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Austen McDonald\ \ Chief Technology Officer @ Reflex Integration Through Play\ \ Austen brings 16+ years of engineering, leadership, and hiring experience. Previously a Senior Engineering Manager at Meta, he chaired the iOS and Android Hiring Committees, hiring thousands of engineers.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/austen-mcdonald-8393566/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Ayush Jain\ \ Senior SDE @ Meesho\ \ Ayush has 4+ years of experience. In his role at Meesho, he leads the Recommendations team which provides user-based recommendations in an e-commerce setup.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushjain-6013/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Ben Muschol\ \ Software Engineer @ Airtable\ \ Ben brings 6 years of experience and has excelled at Airtable, Airbnb, Amazon, & Hubspot. At Airbnb, he provided tooling to automate hundreds of database upgrades with minimal downtime.](/content/network/linkedin.com/in/benmuschol/index.html)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Brett DeWoody\ \ Lead Frontend Engineer @ Firstbase\ \ Brett founded his first company in 2005 and has been engineering ever since. He’s mentored countless engineers in his 17+ years of experience.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettdewoody/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Brian Zhu\ \ Software Engineer @ Airbnb\ \ Brian has 4+ years of experience and has driven innovation on talented teams at Tableau and Airbnb, where most recently he has created machine learning models to stop fake accounts.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianzhu1/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Bronze Compere\ \ Software Engineer @ Spotify\ \ Bronze brings his experience as a software engineer to Formation as a Mentor. He believes that his decision to move abroad and invest fully in tech, has made him a better engineer.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronze-compere-395739a0)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Bryce Oldham\ \ Lead Engineer @ Slalom\ \ Bryce has 8 years of experience working for Charles Schwab, GM, Amazon, & Apple. At Apple, he led a team that built and migrated services to AWS in their Ad Platforms organization.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryceoldham/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ Charles St. Louis\ \ COO @ Element Finance\ \ Charles advised us on decentralized governance processes and the different career paths for software engineers in the blockchain space.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesstlouis/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ She/Her\ \ Cherry Hertz\ \ Senior Manager @ Auth0\ \ Cherry spoke to us about her journey into DevOps. She shared her tips for engineers working toward a career in the field.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherryhertz/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Chislaine Cruz\ \ Software Engineer @ Oscar Health\ \ Chislaine brings 2+ years of experience to Formation as a Mentor. At Oscar Health, she enjoys deep technical dives with her SWE team to ensure the end user has a positive experience.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chislaine-cruz/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Clint Hall\ \ Tech Lead @ Elastic\ \ Clint has 20 years of experience in engineering, incl. 6 years at Facebook. He is the Tech Lead at Elastic where his team is creating, maintaining, and supporting shared UX infrastructure.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintandrewhall/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Dave Miller\ \ VP of Engineering @ Cord\ \ Dave has 20+ years of experience and has been in IC, Manager, and Director roles at Facebook and Lyft. He is now the VP of Engineering at Cord.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-miller-162061151/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ David Novati\ \ Principal Analyst @ Epic Games\ \ David spoke to us about his experience breaking into the world of gaming and what’s it’s like to be part of such a fast-growing industry.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-novati-71b48821/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Derek Darko\ \ Software Engineer @ Google\ \ Derek has 3+ years of experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Bank of America and, most recently, Google.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-darko-a93b4a88/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Eric Ning\ \ Staff Software Engineer @ Brex\ \ Eric has 9+ years of experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Microsoft, Facebook, and Airbnb.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ning/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Erica Law\ \ Founder and Recruiting Leader @ Springhouse Talent\ \ Erica has more than 7 years of experience in technical recruiting at both large tech companies like Lyft and smaller start-ups. Most recently, Erica has founded her own talent agency.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericalaw/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Frances Coronel\ \ Senior SWE @ Slack\ \ Frances brings more than 6 years of experience to Formation as a Mentor. She has excelled on high-performing teams at Slack, Byteboard, and Accenture.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescoronel/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ She/Her\ \ Geeta Chaudhry\ \ Engineering Mindset Coach \ \ Geeta is a former Google software engineer and Stanford lecturer. She now runs her own practice as an Engineering Mindset Coach.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/geeta-chaudhry-a963411/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Gracielle Yan\ \ Human Resources Generalist @ Equilibrium Energy\ \ Gracielle brings over 15 years of experience to her role as a Career Coach at Formation. She has spent the majority of her career at Teach for America and Meta, working in People & Talent Ops.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracielleyan/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Jackson Gabbard\ \ CTO @ Cord\ \ Jackson spent 6+ years at Facebook, runs an engineering- focused youtube channel with 1M+ views, and acts as CTO of Cord.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacksongabbard/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ James O’Dwyer\ \ Sr. Software Engineer @ Kustomer\ \ James has 6+ years of engineering experience and has shipped impactful products for Carta, Sprig, and Spotify.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesxodwyer/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Jean Leconte\ \ Business Engineer @ Meta\ \ Jean brings over 4 years of experience as an engineer at some of the industry’s top companies, like Snap, Adobe, Google, Amazon, and most recently, Meta. At Meta, he is working as a Business Engineer on AI Agents.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-leconte-ii/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Joe Grinstead\ \ ex-Staff Engineer \ \ Previously a Staff Engineer at WhatsApp, Joe brings over 9 years of software engineering experience and is most recently the Co-Founder of SkyMass.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-grinstead/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Karen Hsu\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Linkedin\ \ Karen brings 9+ years of software engineering experience and excellence to mentoring at Formation. Most recently, she is at LinkedIn leading a 13 person frontend team through planning, execution, and testing.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlohsu/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ Kent Beck\ \ Creator of Extreme Programming \ \ Kent is the proprietor of Three Rivers Consulting, Inc. where he’s spent 30+ years helping companies build out SWE teams. He also spent 7+ years as a Technical Coach at Facebook.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Kevin Farst\ \ Senior iOS Engineer @ Earnin\ \ Kevin has 14+ years of engineering experience and has shipped impactful products at Earnin and Stanza where he developed features using React and GraphQL.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-farst-14a63914/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Keyan Pishdadian\ \ Software Engineer @ Stripe\ \ Keyan has 7+ years of engineering experience building backend systems at companies like Lyft and Venmo. He now works on Money Movement systems at Stripe.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/keyanp/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ Kirk Yokomizo\ \ Co-founder @ Lithium Technologies\ \ Kirk discussed the engineering job hunt, what the recruiting process looks like for different stage companies, and strategies for targeting specific companies.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-yokomizo/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Lovedeep Mittal\ \ Software Development Engineer @ Sigmoid\ \ Lovedeep brings 5+ years of industry experience to mentoring at Formation, currently managing a team of 5+ engineers at Sigmoid. He’s passionate about education and mentoring.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lovedeep-m-918859139/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Marques Hill\ \ Technical Recruiter @ Landed\ \ Marques brings 3+ years of SWE recruiting to Formation. He has recruited and built teams at Facebook, Zenefits, Cisco, Gem, and Greenhouse.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marques-hill/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Martin Murjas\ \ Software Dev. @ Bloomingdale’s\ \ Martin is the sole web developer at Bloomingdale's. This gives him the unique opportunity to develop solutions that drive growth, sales, and efficiency.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmurjas/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Michael Shao\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon\ \ Michael has 8 years of experience building inclusive SWE teams with a focus on diversity, psychological safety, and carefully balancing the delineation between home and work life.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mshao/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Michell Brito\ \ Full-Stack Developer @ Adobe\ \ Michell has 2+ years of software engineering experience. At Adobe, she’s working on features that allow creatives to get paid for their art.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellbrito/)

\ \ \ \ Speaker\ \ He/Him\ \ Mike Rognlien\ \ Chief Builder of Awesome People @ Multiple Hats Management\ \ Mike is a founding member of Facebook's L&D team and an expert facilitator focusing on D&I and company culture.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerognlien/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Mitali Gala\ \ Engineering Manager @ Coinbase\ \ Mitali has over 8 years of experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Nextdoor, Airtable, Coinbase and Front where she led the SF Android and iOS team.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitali-gala/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Mohy Saleh\ \ Software Engineer @ Google\ \ Mohy has 4+ years of experience at Amazon and Google. At Google he has developed features for both Google Assistant and their speech recognition service.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohysaleh/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Muneeb Azam\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Apple\ \ Muneeb has 6 years of software engineering experience and brings expertise as a Formation Mentor. Most recently, Muneeb is a Senior SWE at Apple where he’s worked on modernizing Apple Maps Search & UI, impacting millions of iPhone users globally](https://www.linkedin.com/in/muneebazam/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Nam Nguyen\ \ Software Engineer @ Sudozi\ \ Nam joined as a Fellow and is now a Mentor. At Sudozi, he led a budget tracking project and is currently working on integrating customers' accounting data through 3rd party APIs.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/namdoannguyen/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Nathen Lee\ \ Technical Recruiter @ Google\ \ Before joining Google, Nathan helped recruit and staff hospitals with nurses across the U.S. and Guam during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen-lee-recruiter303132/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Nicholas Wong\ \ Software Engineer @ Meta\ \ Nic brings his experience as a Formation Alumni to his role as a Mentor. He also has 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer at companies like Digit, Cointracker, and Meta.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niczwong/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Nook Harquail\ \ Staff Software Engineer II @ Etsy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harquail/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Peter Royal\ \ Staff Software Engineer @ Netflix\ \ Peter brings more than 25 years of experience to Formation, with 5+ years at Netflix. A highlight of his career was building a full U.S. equity trading system with a dream-team at DRW Trading.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterroyal/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Philip Su\ \ Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI \ \ Philip spent 12+ years at Microsoft and 7+ years at Facebook, where he led the London engineering office, before founding his own company, Audere.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/suphilip/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Rafa Moreno Cesar\ \ Software Engineer @ Clubhouse\ \ Rafa brings 6+ years of experience working at Instacart, Dosh, Big Nerd Ranch.](https://linkedin.com/in/rafaelmorenocesar)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Rajagopal Bojanpalli\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Uber\ \ Rajagopal has 8+ years of engineering experience. He was the first data engineer in his org. and helped it grow to 10 engineers.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brajagopal/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Roby Singh\ \ Technical Recruiter @ Doordash\ \ Roby brings over 9 years of technical recruiting experience and expertise as a Career Coach. He’s spent the majority of his time at DoorDash and Meta on their Early Careers teams.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhupinder408/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Ryan Mack\ \ Director Of Engineering @ Uptycs\ \ Ryan has been programming since 2002, helped develop AI for Rockstar Games, and spent 10 years at Facebook where he founded their Boston Office.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmackfb/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Shagun Bhatia\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudera\ \ Shagun brings 7+ years of experience, most recently as a Senior SWE at Cloudera, optimizing tooling, infrastructure, and automating test workflows.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shagunbhatia/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Shekhar Venkat\ \ Head of Software Development @ Amazon\ \ Shekhar joins Formation with 20+ years of experience, most recently as Amazon’s Head of Software Development for Alexa Healthcare, Device Certification, and Data Privacy & Trust. He’s also an Amazon Bar Raiser who recruited over 250 top talents.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shekhar-venkat/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Shubham Sharma\ \ Software Engineer II \ \ Shubham brings over 6 years of experience in software engineering, most recently at Microsoft on their Cloud + AI team.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhamsharma1996/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Sivcan Singh\ \ Staff Engineer @ Postman\ \ Sivcan joins Formation with 7+ years of software engineering experience, most recently as a Staff Engineer. His roles as Product Engineer and Tech Lead allow him to offer diverse expertise to mentees.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivcan/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ She/Her\ \ Sophia Vanegas\ \ University Recruiting Technical Sourcer @ NVIDIA\ \ Sophia brings over 8 years of experience and expertise in technical sourcing to career coaching at Formation. Sophie has spent the majority of her time at Meta, and is most recently at NVIDIA.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-vanegas-136b5591/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Stanley Ye\ \ Software Engineer II @ Microsoft\ \ Stanley has 5+ years of experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Amazon and most recently, Microsoft where he contributes to Edge.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanye/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Steven Dang\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Uber\ \ Steven brings over 7 years of software engineering experience at Capital One and Uber where he specializes in building security infrastructure products.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangsteven)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Suhas Joshi\ \ Engineering Manager @ Stripe\ \ Suhas has 17+ years of experience. As an EM at Facebook, he simultaneously led multiple News Feed teams. He’s now at Stripe leading their work on Messaging and Design Systems.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhasjoshi2/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Sujit Nair\ \ Principal Engineer @ Marqeta\ \ Sujit brings nearly 20 years of engineering experience where he excelled at Netflix, eBay, and Yahoo.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujitnair/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Sunil Lalwani\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Versa Networks\ \ Sunil joins Formation with 7+ years of SWE experience. Currently a Senior Engineer at Versa Networks, he previously worked at Meta on ML infrastructure for the People You May Know feature.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-lalwani/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Tanuj Aswani\ \ SDE II @ Amazon\ \ Tanuj brings 4+ years of engineering experience and his experience as a Fellow to Formation. Prior to Amazon, he worked on a team that was ingesting cancer data for treatment research.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanuj-aswani/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Tony Nguyen\ \ Senior SDE @ Oracle\ \ Tony has over 11 years of engineering experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Amazon and most recently Oracle, where he works on Autoscaling and Fleet Management.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-for-the-nguyen/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Udayan Deshpande\ \ SDE @ Icebrgio\ \ Udayan has over 13 years of engineering experience and has excelled on high-performing teams at Microsoft, Zillow, and Amazon.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/udayandeshpande/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Vincent Ng\ \ Senior QA Engineer @ Federal Reserve Bank of SF\ \ Vincent has 15+ years of experience at Accenture, Allstate, Stride Health, and Skout.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentkng/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Vincent Nguyen\ \ Software Engineer @ TikTok\ \ Vincent has 2 years of software engineering experience. He broke into the tech space by way of 3 different coding bootcamps and brings great insight into their pros and cons.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vnguyencode/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Vinit Parikh\ \ Senior Software Engineer @ Uber\ \ Vinit has 6+ years of experience. While at Meta, he worked on the interview overhaul process for his organization. Now at Uber Freight, he is building out the Less Than Truckload product.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parikhvinit/)

\ \ \ \ Mentor\ \ He/Him\ \ Vlad Shlosberg\ \ CEO @ Foqal\ \ Vlad has 17+ years of engineering experience and worked as a Sr. Staff Engineer at LinkedIn before founding his own company, Foqal.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vshlos/)

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