
2023—Present
Front End Now — Career programs
Co-FounderLead Coachcurriculumproduct
Next.js ecosystemcurriculumcommunitycareer systems
Programs that help beginners land frontend roles — structured learning, accountability, and realistic hiring literacy.
What Front End Now is
I co-founded Front End Now to solve the real bottleneck beginners hit: not motivation — direction. Most people don’t fail because they’re incapable; they fail because they optimize the wrong things too early.
What I actually do
- Tight feedback loops — daily support beats passive content consumption.
- Translate hiring reality — what teams evaluate in portfolios, interviews, and take-home work.
- Keep standards modern — the frontend toolchain moves; curriculum has to move with it without chasing novelty.
Proof that matters
Students have landed 70+ job offers (aggregate outcome — individual timelines vary). The metric I care about most is whether someone can ship credible UI and explain trade-offs like an engineer.
Philosophy (short)
Coding is boring and hard at the beginning — that’s normal. My job is to keep people from quitting in the worst possible window: right after it gets confusing.
