all things alchemy

Marcy Silverman recently graduated from Alchemy and within weeks landed a role as a Software Engineer at ESRI that she absolutely loves. Coming from a background with no experience in coding, she evolved into a great software developer. While still in the program she also showcased her technical...

Kevin Grayson started our program after leaving a pretty successful and lucrative career behind. Why? Because he felt stagnant in his role and rarely found opportunities to grow professionally. He decided his best bet to enter tech was through a program that was taught in person in a community he...

It’s been a year since Shannon Wolcott joined the Alchemy team and took over career services for our future software developers. We met her at a PDX Women in Technology Event where we started a conversation over an index card that read “Career Services”. We were confident she’d be the right fit...

It’s that time of the year across the nation, and very boldly in Portland, where Pride Month is celebrated. This month also strongly resonates with what we do at Alchemy, as we want everyone to be themselves and honor who they are with acceptance. A driver of everything we do here at Alchemy is...

Meet Injoong Yoon, who started Alchemy in Spring of last year. Now that he’s landed a role as a Software Engineer at Tivix and isn’t around campus any longer, we find we miss him and his very infectious laughter. Injoong finished our program in Fall of 2019 and immediately started working for us...