all things alchemy

Four times a year, we are honored to graduate students that have committed to redefining their career by completing our challenging, professional FullStack JavaScript program. As the only boot camp in Portland training folks to enter tech at mid entry level roles in six months, students are...

Mike Lambert came to us with a passion for coding and desire for a career where he could continually learn and be challenged. His love for code was ignited a few years back when he started building spreadsheets and ended up making one that could essentially do his job for him. This led him to...

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...