If you’re a current CodePath student OR an alum (have successfully completed a CodePath course), you can access career coaching! Career coaching sessions take place via Zoom and are available multiple days a week! While most of our coaching team operates on Eastern Time business hours, we also offer availability outside of those hours.
My name is Catalina Pena, and I am excited to help support you in your career journey. I am an AfroColombian recruiting professional who moved to the US at age 9 and found myself in the tech industry by complete accident. Having successfully navigated different tech organizations, I want to help others be more intentional about their journey to their dream career. I have worked in Recruiting at Facebook, Twitter, Andreessen Horowitz (a16), and Asana and can share tips on how to stand out and land your dream offer.
<aside> 📣 “Catalina gave me useful insight on my LinkedIn profile and guided my own thought process to have my personal brand reflect on the profile.” -CodePath student
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Catalina can help with: general career advice, resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn, behavioral interviewing, networking, offer negotiations, and is the best at helping you discover the unique value you offer!
Bobby can help with: technical interview strategy, game plans, mock technical interviews, and figuring out where you might want to go in tech!
My name is Bobby Dorlus and I'm the tech interview career coach! I'm here to level everybody up on the skills you need to get through interviewing and eventually move on into a long fruitful career in this field of technology and engineering. I've been in engineering for about 20 years now, I started back in 2002 all the way at the help desk and eventually worked my way up to spending about 9 years as a Staff Engineer at Twitter. I’ve mostly worked in Python, Golang, and Bash, but another thing about me is that I transitioned into tech without a college degree! I’m a first-generation Haitian-American, so I know what it means to the child of an immigrant. But most of all, I'm hopefully here to inspire you to achieve great things, and definitely look forward to our conversations.
<aside> 📣 “Bobby is great and very helpful. He provided a lot of useful insights and actionable items for my career exploration. Really appreciate his help!” - CodePath student
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Daniel can help with: Crafting your job search strategy, tailoring your resume, networking, offer negotiation, and helping you find your unique strengths, one step at a time!
Hi there, I’m Daniel. I can’t wait to meet you!
Prior to working at CodePath, I have worked in a variety of fields including marketing, operations, and HR, and have worked in campus recruiting at BILL and Walmart. When I’m not working, I enjoy making stickers, gaming, and watching anime.
I believe that it’s possible for you to steadily progress toward your dream job by focusing your time on the right areas every day. I hope to help you discover how to guide your career journey in the most fulfilling way possible for you!
<aside> 📣 Daniel was accommodating in giving me advice on where to start with my internship strategies. He was very wise and insightful during our conversation about what steps I should take right now during the summer.
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Hi CodePathers! 👋🏻 I’m Dani, one of the newest members to our career coaching team and cannot wait to meet with you! I have worked with students from multiple backgrounds in higher education, EdTech and the non-profit space. Outside of work, you can find me gaming, eating and sleeping 😴
My passions stems from supporting, coaching and connecting with students from all walks of life to help achieve your professional and academic goals! I can’t wait to connect 🙂
<aside> 📢 When I first scheduled my appointment, I wasn't really sure where to start. Dani was incredibly engaging and knew exactly where to start with helping me and I feel a lot more hopeful with my future job search. - CodePath student
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Dani can help with: tailoring your resumes & cover letters, LinkedIn, behavioral interviewing, networking, offer negotiations, general career advising and helping you reach your best potential!
Jamillah’s passion areas of support are: combating impostor syndrome, the art of salary negotiation and fostering a sense of community and safety.
Jamillah brings expertise in technical project and people management to her role as a CodePath career coach, specializing in our supporting CodePath students in the ATL region. During Jamillah’s 10+ years in tech, spanning both Health IT and SAAS enterprises, she’s cultivated a deep expertise in program and data management, specializing in ERP implementations, data migrations, data governance, and transformative data analytics projects. While leading impactful projects, she became deeply passionate about mentoring and coaching emerging talent. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, hiking, immersing in music, and continuing to hone her Mandarin language skills (taught English in Taiwan and China during a career sabbatical).
Hello! I’m Jonathan Ifegunni, and I’m proud to be part of the Technical Interview Coaching team!
With over 7 years of experience as a software engineer at top companies like AWS, Goldman Sachs, Google, and Microsoft, I bring a wealth of industry knowledge to our conversations. My journey began as an international student from Nigeria, navigating the challenges of breaking into the tech industry in the U.S. without a clear roadmap. I faced the pressure of job hunting while managing the complexities of immigration and student life, ultimately securing multiple job offers from leading tech giants.
I’m passionate about sharing my experiences and insights to help you succeed in your career journey. Whether it's mastering technical interviews or overcoming obstacles, I’m here to guide and mentor you toward your goals. Let’s connect and start building the foundation for your future success!
Jonathan loves helping with: time management during technical interviews, seeing growth with students he is mentoring, and talking about internship and on-the-job success!
<aside> 📣 “Jonathan gave great advice on how to approach the technical interview and explained the interview from the perspective of the interviewer. Gave me great feedback on where I can improve and I feel better moving forward with his guidance.” - CodePath student
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Kelsey was CodePath’s first career coaching hire, and as the leader of a fabulous coaching team, she oversees several projects related to improving our coaching and career support services here at CodePath, including our Meet the Career Peers program and embedding AI-powered tools into our services!
She still loves meeting with students and leading Career Labs whenever she can, and you will probably see her responding to a lot of questions in our career help channels in Slack!
Kelsey loves helping with: resumes, job search strategy, personal branding (helping you discover what makes you unique and awesome, behavioral interview prep, networking, and salary negotiation (so basically everything)!
<aside> 📣 “Kelsey provided an absolute wealth of important career advice and information in the short 30 min session we had. She was able to pick my brain and decipher who I was, my skills, and my goals. She provided insightful suggestions about my career path that gave me new perspectives to achieve my goals.” - CodePath student
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