Engramar Bollas

Director

Engramar's raison d'etre is to serve. A believer of servant leadership. He is passionate in providing service excellence to customers and ensuring people, culture, processes and technology support the same initiative. Engramar has worked in the IT industry for over 23 years. Having worked in Asia, the Middle East and Australia, Engramar has deep expertise in all aspects of software development lifecycle including business requirements analysis, systems design and development, product testing, release management, end-user training, pre-sales and post-implementation support. Engramar is working for GBG (Mastersoft Group), a pioneer in customer data management) as their Head of Customer Support and Testing team. Engramar is also the current Director of Code.Sydney, an organisation which helps beginner programmers and novice data analysts showcase their newfound skills. Engramar has obtained a degree in Mathematics major in Computer Science from the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila.

Armstrong Chiu

Developer Partner

Armstrong has 14 years of experience in Web Design and Development, 8 of which are frontend focused. He is also actively pursuing his interest in 3D rendering and animation and has been doing a lot of WebGL projects ever since. Armstrong has a degree in Mathematics major in Computer Science and has over 20 years of experience in the IT field starting out in the field of mainframe programming and product testing.

Tony Johnson

Software Engineer / Systems Administrator

Despite having a Degree in Prehistory and Archaeology, Tony has survived 30 years in various IT careers; from hardware sales and service, support desk, linux systems administration, management, consultancy, and software development. He began coding commercially 8 years ago in Java for Structural Geology project, and moved on to full-stack web development. He has completed the Free Code Camp front-end and back-end curriculum for JavaScript, React/Redux, Node/Express, MongoDB and GraphQL. Tony is an active participant in Free Code Camp Sydney meetups. Currently, he is contracted as Project Manager for McLowd Financial Services Marketplace, a cloud-based software company.

Promie Yutasane

Software Engineer

Promie Yutasane is currently working as an Accounts and Data Analyst and a part-time Master of IT student at UNSW with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence as majors. He specialises in data analysis and visualisation, working with technologies such as Python, SQL, Javascript and VBA. Promie has completed FreeCodeCamp's front-end curriculum and currently exploring full stack development. Promie is passionate with both the design component and the logical aspect of programming. He is looking forward to contributing to the community by sharing the knowledge to people who want to start their journey with web development.

Gagan Shrestha

Mentor

Gagan is a Software Testing Professional with over 12 years of experience in the testing domain. Gagan's key areas of expertise includes understanding complex business requirements and formulating robust test strategies, developingtest plan, test cases and automated test solutions, test case execution, defect management, and product support. His interest for Python started with test automation converting test scripts from Perl into Python. With discovery of the strength of Python to achieve significant efficiency and effectiveness, his passion has increased and he is in continuous pursuit of mastering the language. He is very excited to be part of Code.Sydney and support all who is in journey of learning Python.

Bin Liu

Mentor

Bin has ten years working experience as a Software Developer and Business Intelligence consultant. His development career started with Java. Recently he is using some script languages like Python, Perl and JavaScript and actively participating as the lead developer of Census+ project. Bin has good sense in coding and is good at learning new technologies. He is interested in Python because it can be applied to many technological areas, such as web application development, data science and so on. He would like to make progress with others who are also interested in Python-related technologies.

Francisco Liwa

Software Engineer

Francisco has more than 10 years of experience in Software Engineering in various domains. An Ex-IBM Engineer. Earned his Masters of Knowledge Engineering degree at National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a polyglot(C/C++, Node.js, Python and Elixir) and dabbles in data science techniques and IoT (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Microbit). Active in the community with two meetups organized in Cebu City (IoT Cebu, Big Data and Data Science Cebu). A startup founder and open source advocate.

Jaydn Chou

Software Engineer

A medical scientist turned self-taught developer turned software engineer. Currently working at Arbor Networks using ReactJS, GraphQL/Apollo, Elasticsearch and Node to deliver products that present customers with a globally-scoped view of the internet threat landscape. Jaydn is passionate about minimal design. Her design approach is heavily influenced by Don Draper - "Make it simple, yet significant". An advocate of lifelong learning, design thinking and remote working. Also a JavaScript workshop facilitator and mentor at MusesJS (formerly NodeGirls). Excited to help newcomers embark on their coding journey as well as helping each other progress through FreeCodeCamp's full-stack curriculum.

Kevin Foong

Software Engineer

Kevin has over 20 years of working experience in a variety of IT related areas including software development, web design and information management. The latter in the area of library and information science. He is currently working as a System Administrator for NSW Health where he mainly utilises SQL for report generation. He recently started learning Python, at first because he wanted to get into data science, but then found Flask along the way. He now considers himself a Python and Flask enthusiast and is interested in sharing his knowledge and learning from others.