My application for Founders and Coders
Hey, I'm Jack. Here's my face. I'm applying to join your programme because I believe in the power of technology to make the
world a better place. Thank you so much for visiting my first ever website that I've built from scratch, which pulls together all the components of the rest of
my application to join the Founders and Coders Spring 2020 cohort - it's a real pleasure to have you here.
This website is a culmination of work I have done in the last couple of months, before work and at weekends, learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I have really enjoyed
working through the application pre-requisites, which have sometimes been challenging but especially in the case of CodeWars, extremely satisfying.
I am passionate about social impact,and really believe in your approach to training the next generation of coders. I am so excited to be putting myself forward to
learn with and play an active part alongside your awesome community of developers.
A very quick background: I studied engineering at university during which time I did a bit of C++ coding - I loved it. When I graduated in 2013 it was to pursue a
career in partnership fundraising, first for Great Ormond Street and now with Shelter. Twelve months ago I became a trustee for a tiny human rights charity based
in London, so have seen the financial pressures around web development on small NGOs first hand. You can read more about what I've been up to on my LinkedIn in the
navigation above, and you could read through my recommendations there to get a sense of how I naturally find opportunities to collaborate within and across teams.
It's time for me to leave fundraising, and I want to get back to building things that people want to use, for the benefit of society. After lots of research and
meeting with past and current cohortees, Founders and Coders is the coding bootcamp that is offering the clearest route to having the biggest social impact
whilst working alongside the most diverse people - which is super important in engineering (and every field).
Why am I applying?
Course
Tech for Better - this is exactly the kind of work I plan to do long-term
Focus on pair programming
Opportunity to make an impact with meaningful projects
Career
Ideal launchpad for building my career in charity / social enterprise
An invaluable network of socially conscious coders
A proven track record of successful graduates
My favourite desktops
If you have a keyboard, you can navigate with left and right cursor keys, or press
the number of the image you want. You can also press the space bar to toggle autoplay, which is
indicated 'on' with the green light and 'off' with the red.
