Tutors

The humans behind the bootcamp.

Every tutor is a working engineer or designer trained to teach young people. All DBS checked, all on payroll, none outsourced.

Blessing Iyare

Lead Tutor

Blessing Iyare

Full stack engineer and computing educator. Leads the curriculum and looks after every cohort end to end.

"Built her first website at 11 using a Geocities tutorial."

Priya Sharma

AI and Games Tutor

Priya Sharma

Machine learning engineer who teaches the Byte AI module and the games sprint.

"Has shipped four indie games."

Daniel Kwame

Web Tutor

Daniel Kwame

Front end engineer. Teaches the web module, from first HTML page to a deployed React app.

"Owns more keyboards than is reasonable."

Naomi Bennett

Creative Tutor

Naomi Bennett

Product designer. Leads design thinking and the Demo Day stage, helping kids tell their story.

"Once designed a stage set for the BRIT Awards."

Marcus Thompson

Builders Track Lead

Marcus Thompson

Software engineer specialising in the 11 to 17 cohort. Pushes ambitious projects without burning anyone out.

"Mentors a community of teen open source contributors."

Joy Tanaka

Foundations Lead and Parent Liaison

Joy Tanaka

Specialises in the 6 to 10 cohort. Runs the weekly parent reports and the WhatsApp group.

"Former primary school computing lead with three kids of her own."

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