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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.