alchemists in the community

A couple weeks ago we had the opportunity to welcome Senator Ron Wyden’s Multnomah County Field Representative Grace Stratton to Alchemy Code Lab. She saw first hand what a typical busy day looks like here, observing as apprentice developers (our students) worked in mob programming groups...

Brandi “Charly” Welch entered our program at the end of 2017, and seeing her land her first Software Engineer position after completing our program makes us so happy. This is especially true knowing the adversity she’s overcome in her life and the diversity she represents. It’s why we do here at...

Another cohort graduates! Last week, 10 incredible students finished our program after nearly 6 months of intense training. With more than 800 hours of learning how to harness FullStack JavaScript capabilities using React and Redux on the Front End with ExpressJS and MongoDB on the Back End (plus...

Keli Hansen started classes at Alchemy in the beginning of this year. She came to us with a desire to make a more comfortable living and decided to do it through code. She entered our program after working in yarn stores a long time, and immediately secured a job as an Application Engineer at...

Yuval Allweil, a curious, passionate autodidact, who graduated from Alchemy and made big contributions at our AppLap, is off to work at Kroger as a Front End Developer. Having come from a background working in a variety of roles, coding tapped into his desire to continuously learn and be...