Mission

To get engineers to sell and speak better. Software engineering excellence today means thriving in fast, team-collaborative environments, having a bias for getting and giving feedback, and contributing to large, legacy code repositories. Unfortunately, CS undergraduates and masters, even from prestigious places, are taught theory, while stakeholders look for proof in team collaboration and communication with individual skill. We start by teaching algorithms and speaking.

Headstarter Founders

Founding Story

My high school teacher said I would never be cut out for computer science. Four years later, I won 10 hackathons, completed 8 bootcamps, earned a CS degree in 3 years, and got promoted to senior engineer at Capital One's chatbot team. Most people quit after facing a little adversity. There was no clear blueprint beyond school (and Leetcode). I had cracked a process in a world where 50% of CS grads don't have a job for 1-2 years and hardly thrive after getting one. I want to share this process with the world. I started with Shaq.

- Yasin Ehsan

Team

Yasin Ehsan

Yasin Ehsan

Co-Founder / CEO

Ex-Capital One Eng/PM, 10x Hackathon Wins

Faizan Ahmed

Faizan Ahmed

Co-Founder / Head of ML

Ex-Amazon/Bloomberg, ML Paper 25 Citations

John Royal

John Royal

Senior Software Engineer

Ex-Codecademy Content Contributor

Liz Cohen

Liz Cohen

Product Design Lead

Ex-EdX UI/UX Lead

Dorothy Chau

Dorothy Chau

Operations Lead

Ex-Coinbase Ops

Advisors

Marco

Marco

Former Director of Product @ EdX

Severin

Severin

Co-Founder & CTO of Duolingo

Brad

Brad

Co-Founder of General Assembly

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