Our Mission

Closing the global gap between talent and opportunity by training and connecting 1 million people to
remote jobs by 2030.

What Makes Microverse Different?

At Microverse, students learn through a very unique approach — by pair programming and collaborating with other students in real time, just as they would with colleagues of a distributed team in a real company.

Students learn multiple programming languages and Computer Science fundamentals, through working on real projects with other students around the world.

This innovative approach not only provides students with an accountability partner and large, global network of support, but also helps them learn remote workflows and acquire the collaboration and communication skills necessary to join a global company.

Once students are done with the curriculum, we help them improve their portfolio, resume and online presence, and get ready for job interviews. Then, we help them find and apply to competitive jobs worldwide and negotiate job offers.

The Founder’s Story

I grew up in Argentina, went to school in Europe, built a business in San Francisco, taught in Africa, and lived in Asia for a year. In my life's journey, I’ve seen that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not.

Nowadays, the Internet makes it possible for anyone to connect with global jobs regardless of where they were born or live. However, paying for a great education is incredibly difficult for most people.

I started Microverse to change that—to help people from all around the world learn software development at no upfront cost and to connect them with global jobs no matter their location, gender, or background.

Ariel Camus
Microverse Founder & CEO

Who is behind Microverse?

We are a fully remote and global company, with team members across 20+ countries, who come together to make an impact through education. Get to know the global team making Microverse possible.

Ariel Camus

Founder + CEO

Ariel has lived and worked in 7 different countries including Spain, Argentina, USA, and Vietnam and has been coding since he was 12. He previously founded Tourist Eye, a travel app with 1MM+ users acquired by Lonely Planet. He is famous for his bad jokes and Argentinian asados.

Ahmad Abdel-Halim

Engineering

Ahmad is a software engineer located in Egypt. When he's not working, he enjoys spending time with family, traveling around Egypt, and watching football. His favorite programming language is Ruby, which he happily gets to work with it in Microverse.

Andrea Funda

STUDENt Success

As an avid traveler, Andrea believes no road trip is successful without getting lost at least once. Professionally though, she loves helping people find their way. Her background is in process, project, and people management. Outside of work, she can usually be found playing board games, hiking, or mastering new recipes.

Autum Huffman

Career services

Autumn is a reformed academic with a passion for democratizing education and helping students meet their potential. Prior to Microverse, she was a college instructor, education researcher, college & career coach, and helped bootstrap a Florida non-profit education program. In her spare time Autumn loves hiking, amateur photography, and having dance parties with her 4 year old.

Becky Pratt

People & Culture

Becky is a People professional who has dedicated her career to caring for company cultures and environments that enable folks to have amazing work experiences. She's originally from Detroit, spent a decade in Seattle, and now calls sunny Madrid home. Professionally, her passions are DEIB, leadership development, and coaching. Outside of work, you can find her baking sweets, watching sports, traveling, and learning about other cultures through food and wine.

Bee Quesada

Student Success

Based in the heart of Central America, Bee is a language-loving nerd with a deep passion for education and a service mindset. Her background is in customer experience, people management, and learning & development. In her free time, Bee can be found reading post-apocalyptic literature and thrifting for vintage 90s fashion.

Benjamin Rojsuontikul

Finance

Ben is a former Peace Corps volunteer turned Valuation and Financial Modeling professional currently based in Washington, DC. He's spent extensive time living and working in Latin America and is an avid football/soccer fan (COYS!). Ben is passionate about economic empowerment through technology and loves Thai food.

Charity Mbaka

PRoduct

Charity is a designer who enjoys working at the intersection of people, businesses, and great products. She has built product experiences in industries like e-commerce, fintech, and security. Outside of work, you can find her reading, going to open mics, playing tennis, volunteering at animal shelters, or looking for a beach.

Crystal Onyeari Mbanefo

Career services

Crystal has had an amazing yet challenging journey of transitioning from careers within, and outside of the IT industry. Today, she's dedicated to helping others make career transition through her role as a Career Coach at Microverse.

Daniela Ruiz

Career services

Born in Argentina, Daniela has worked and lived on three continents (and a cruise ship!). Her passion for education and culture led her to co-found an innovative preschool, then into EdTech startups, where she's happy to keep democratising access to opportunities. When not working, you can find her onstage, doing standup comedy or singing, and offstage, raising two amazing humans.

Emilia Andrzejewska

Product

Emilia is a web developer by profession and a teacher at heart. She has 7 years of professional coding experience, mostly in C# and Ruby, and has served as a mentor on various bootcamps and Rails Girls communities. She has also spearheaded the creation of a community-led bootcamp in Poland. In her free time, Emily enjoys doing yoga and reading books.

Ennio Poscia

Operations

Born and raised in Italy, Ennio currently lives in Ireland where he has spent 10+ years working in the Workforce Management area for financial and technology companies like HP, Airbnb and TikTok. In his free time, he loves travelling, watching movies and sports, and reading.

Eric Newport

Career Services

Eric is a software engineer with a love of teaching. He has more than a decade of professional experience working as a developer at various tech companies and trained to be a teacher in college. Career coaching at Microverse allows him to combine his passion for programming with his passion for pedagogy, to help new developers learn the skills needed to land jobs and be successful in tech.

Gaby Suarez

Admissions

Gaby is a native Salvadoran, Spanglish-speaking, dog (and sushi) lover. Her background is in managerial consulting for large tech companies, but her professional passion lies in helping companies with strong social missions solve complex problems.

Israel Gutiérrez

Product

Developing software for a few years, Israel discovered his element: education. He’s been a researcher in Technology Enhanced Learning, curriculum developer, teacher coordinator and education innovator in bootcamps and initiatives to help people land jobs as software developers. After work, he spends time with his kids and his dog, Otto.

Ivica Lakatoš

Engineering

Ivica is based in Serbia where he's lived his whole life. Besides spending time with family he enjoys running, walking in nature, and playing all kinds of sports. Writing code and building software is his passion and Ruby is his preferred language.

Jessica López

Career Services

Jessica was born in Venezuela, lived in the US and is currently based in the Canary Islands. With a background in Management & HR Management, she’s used to working in multicultural environments. Through constant learning, she's gained a lot of perspective to focus on people and grow others’ talents. She is a strong advocate of helping people develop their soft skills and is on a quest to improve education systems worldwide.

Juanjo Mata

Chief operations officer

Juanjo has spent 25 years writing software and managing teams at Netscape/Mozilla, Oracle, and startups like Teambox and Agroviz. With a passion for open source tech and helping teams make global impact, he spends his time between the San Francisco and Spain trying to catch a live music show with his wife whenever he can.

Kelly Stretch

Marketing

Kelly is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is passionate about her country, education, and upskilling those who find themselves without opportunity. Performance marketing has played a big part throughout her career on multiple clients. In her free time you’ll find her with a good book or game.

Kelvin Ong

Chief of Staff

Kelvins background is in strategy & operations in innovation management, digital transformation and tech. His eclectic background includes him being an army bomb disposal sergeant & operations specialist, sushi chef, social entrepreneur & founder, and actor-advocate for LGBTQ causes. Kelvin likes to take on unexpected challenges, most recently surfing, French, and web3 community management.

Kelvin Morais

Engineering

Born and raised in Brazil, Kelvin decided to become a developer because he believes that technology can change people's lives for the better. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time studying, playing music, trying different cuisines and travelling whenever possible.

Leticia Scheifer

Admissions

Leticia is passionate about people and what they can accomplish together. She's worked previously with customer service and translation. Born and raised in Brazil, she's interested in psychology, art therapy and literature. Her hobbies include movies, photography, and collages.

Lizzie Tran

Career services

Lizzie is from New Orleans, Louisiana and has a background in education, writing, and editing. She is a former college and high school English literature and writing instructor, where making educational spaces more inclusive and equitable was deeply important to her. In her spare time, she is addicted to watching television and buying houseplants.

Maciej Nowak

Engineering

Maciej is all about solving technical challenges and delivering the best quality software products possible. He has been working in the IT industry since 2012. Personally, he's a healthy lifestyle addict with a passion for various kinds of sports.

Maggie Mellon

Student success

Passionate about the role of cultural exchange in personal and global development, Maggie has spent most of her career working on international education projects. Currently based in Barcelona, she loves having easy access to the sea, the mountains, food from all over the world, and good friends to enjoy it all with.

Marco Lizza

Student success

Marco is an Australian living in the Canary Islands, Spain. He previously worked at a university in Melbourne where he focused on retention and student success initiatives. He has also dabbled in web project management and stonemasonry. Marco holds a masters in International Development and is passionate about equity of opportunity and education. In his free time, he can be found gardening and barbecuing.

Matthias Fiest

Career services

Matthias has lived in four countries so far. Education is the only product he truly believes in, so he designs and delivers career coaching, enterprise, and alumni services. His degree is in Japanese studies, intercultural communication, and social psychology. He loves cats, runs role-playing games, and he trains a lot.

Meesen Brown

Marketing

Meesen is originally from Canada and has spent her career living and working around the world. She previously founded a travel management platform for remote workers, and is passionate about helping shape the future of work. When she's not working, find her outdoors, reading, or finding ways to live more sustainably.

Mustapha Yakubu

career Services

Mustapha is passionate about helping people land their dream job. Over the years, he has created numerous career training programs to help job seekers achieve their career goals. You can always find him discussing tech, startups or Steve jobs. He enjoys traveling, playing ping-pong and eating pizza.

Muturi Nijeri

Product

Muturi believes people have unbounded potential to transform their own - and others - lives when given the right skills, environment, and opportunities. This led him to education, where he has worked the last six years as a learning, experience, and service designer. He has lived in Kenya, South Africa, the US, and the UK. When not at work, you can find him marveling at his daughter, working out, watching 'true crime', animations, and nature documentaries, or traveling to new places.

Naidel Ardila

marketing

Naidel bets on education as a critical tool to sow equitable opportunities and create a more peaceful world. To achieve this, she has developed and launched educational programs that foster positive social changes in South, Central and North America and Europe. Naidel loves hiking, book clubs, documentary movies, and community events.

Natasha Rodney

Core program

Natasha was born in London, and has Jamaican heritage. She’s passionate about making an impact through education and continuous learning. She has lived and worked in Ecuador and Colombia, and did her master’s in Education research in Sierra Leone. Outside of work find her weight training at the gym, trying to perfect watercolour painting and short stories, or cooking for friends and family.

Nicolas Kneler

marketing

Born and raised in Argentina, Nico developed a music collaboration platform right after college and has been designing product strategies for startups ever since. When not working you'll find him walking about or looking for original furniture in flea markets.

Noer Paanakker

Product

Born in The Netherlands, Noer is a tech entrepreneur with a knack for education. As a result, he has spent the last five years of his life helping underrepresented groups land high-quality tech jobs. You can often find him nerding out on cool ideas in hopes of leaving the world a better place than he found it.

Paty González Flores

Product

Paty is passionate about learning and views it as an essential human skill that enables people to grow and move into new territories. With a strong background in education and technology, she has designed and implemented learning experiences in different settings. She practices yoga, loves plants and enjoys cooking.

Riley Spicer

Product

Riley cares about creating community and improving the world we live in. They come to Microverse with an eclectic background that includes attending a coding school then working as a software engineer at AWS. When not working on Microverse, they can be found knitting, painting, or writing poetry somewhere around the world.

Rodrigo Capuzzi

PRODUCT

With a background in Civil Engineering, Rodrigo discovered in college that what moves him is data. It all started with undergraduate research where he used Neural Networks to predict the growth of Metropolitan Regions and hasn't stopped. When he isn't diving into Microverse’s data, he is swimming in his community pool in São Paulo, Brazil.

Sandra López

Career services

After an intense process of professional reinvention, Sandra does for a living what is aligned with her life purpose -helping people get their dream job - which brings out their best skills, interests & values. In her experience, she has discovered the importance of self-knowledge and goal setting to plan the life we want to live. Originally from Venezuela, she currently lives in The Canary Islands.

Scott Anderson

Program Director

After more than a decade in London, Scott lives in Brighton, UK. Scott’s career has focused on operations within education delivery, leading delivery teams to share digital and data skills globally. Outside of work, you’ll find Scott reading, watching documentaries or enjoying the UK coastline by cycling or swimming.

Susanna Gürocak

Student Success

Born and raised in Germany, with roots in Turkey, Susanna has lived for 10+ years in sunny Barcelona where she’s worked for hyper-growth startups, scaled support and success teams while developing a deep passion for coaching and helping people succeed in life. Outside of work, she loves spending time in nature with her children, traveling, and practicing yoga.

Tina Green

Admissions

Tina is a Swedish national that spent most of her career in South Africa, where she focused on authentic leadership, customer experience, and coaching. A bit of a geek, Tina loves video games (and fantasy novels). She's also a connoisseur of coffee and passionate about solving problems.

Vero Rebagliatte

Engineering

Vero is originally from Uruguay but recently relocated to beautiful Costa Rica. As a person of humble beginnings, she’s passionate about providing folks with access to opportunities to develop themselves and create the life they want to live. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time near the ocean, with human, and also four-legged, friends!

Willow Mata

Product

Willow believes deeply in education and global connections as the route to greater opportunity for all. Her background is in evaluation research, organizational learning, and international education. A native of California, Willow lives with her husband and three bilingual children near Madrid, Spain.

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