Mentors in Tech (MinT)

We're happy to see Mentors in Tech (MinT) alum *and* current mentor Steven Wang representing his alma mater North Seattle College and employer Amazon! Join MinT as a mentor, recruit overlooked and underserved students, or partner with students on open source projects: mentorsintech.com Steven's journey from Amazon delivery driver to Software Engineer II took many twists and turns. As a MinT student, Steven partnered with mentors Christopher Heim (Snowflake), Jesse Carnathan (Google), Alok Shriram (Hinge Health), and Alex Krytskyi, CSM (Microsoft) to land as a new engineer, and this year Steven joined the growing group of MinT students returning as mentors! Watch Steven's video: https://lnkd.in/get2WP7K Steve Balo Eric Lloyd John H Lee #mentorship #mentoring #mentoringprogram #mentoringmatters #volunteer

We're happy to celebrate another Mentors in Tech (MinT) alum launching their tech career as Mark Tsvyan begins an IT internship at Weyerhaeuser! Become a mentor, support open source projects, or recruit from MinT to help nontraditional students like Mark enter the tech industry: mentorsintech.com While completing his bachelor's at Green River College in Software Development and Data Analytics, Mark worked closely with his mentors to find his career fit, build a strong resume and LinkedIn presence, and strengthen his interviewing muscle. High fives to Mark's mentors Sean H. (HireFractionalTalent.com | Fractional CxO), Jiunwei Chen (Warner Bros. Discovery), Alex Juarez (Red Hat), and Adam Niederer (Chatham Financial) for helping Mark accomplish this goal! #newjob #2025intern #cloudengineer #cloudengineeringintern #weyerhaeuserintern #mentorship #mentoringprogram #mentoringmatters Green River College Data & Software Programs

Become a mentor like Andrew Kuoh to help overlooked, underserved tech students prepare for their first jobs in tech: mentorsintech.com For the past four years, Andrew has made time outside of his role as a Principal at Capgemini to mentor students who've since landed tech roles at employers including Costco IT, UPS, and Convergint. Andrew especially enjoys enabling students to see their unique value as career changers: "Many of the students have extensive non-tech-related experiences. It was fulfilling to help them understand how those experiences are extremely valuable in the tech industry. I also enjoyed collaborating with them to craft strong narratives that showcase to interviewers how those experiences demonstrate successful future behaviors." Thank you Andrew for your ongoing commitment to mentorship and growing the community of tech professionals! Jessica Sestak Aaron Neagle Luiz R. Daniel Svirida Petar Spasic Everett Hanke LeeRoy Hegwood Keiffer T. Michael Chen Green River College Green River College Data & Software Programs North Seattle College Computing Talent Initiative #mentoring #mentoringmatters #mentoringprogram #mentorprofile #volunteermentor

We're ending the work week with a huge shout out to Robert Smith who is beginning his post-military career as a Web Developer with GoldenTech! Become a mentor to help veterans and other nontraditional college students like Rob get a foot in the door in the tech industry: mentorsintech.com After 20+ years with the US Army, Rob sought a new path studying software development at Green River College. Along the way, Rob completed projects and internships with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and CodeDay, and he has worked closely with mentors Josue Negron (OneTrust), Jonathan Guerin (Microsoft), David McKinnon (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Lynn Kuhlman to identify and leverage his transferable skills and land in a full-time role. Thank you Rob for your service and for investing in yourself to reach this goal! Green River College Data & Software Programs Nancy Roe Andy O. #newjob #webdeveloper

Big congratulations to Ngoc Chung Tran who was selected to participate in a multi-year research project with The National Institutes of Health! Become a Mentors in Tech (MinT) mentor to work with students like Ngoc as they pursue unique paths into the tech industry: mentorsintech.com While completing his CS degree at California State University, Fullerton, Ngoc will complete this project by studying data science and biology, conducting research at University of California, Berkeley, and seeking additional internship experience. Thank you to Ngoc's mentors Krishna Kant Gupta (Microsoft) and Amit Sharma (Google) for supporting Ngoc as he continues to grow as an engineer! #mentorship #mentoringprogram #mentoringmatters #volunteermentor #datascience #NIH #nationalinstitutesofhealth #genomics #computationalbiology #projectEAGER Orange Coast College CodeDay Leslie Maxwell Utsab Saha Nancy Rios Computing Talent Initiative

Thank you PyData Seattle and Databricks for hosting MinT, CodeDay's Tyler Menezes, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges's Kendrick Hang, mentor Mike Miranda, alum Celine Watcharaapakorn to talk about the work we all do together to help overlooked and underserved CS students launch their careers through industry mentorship and open-source projects. Many thanks to the PyData organizers who made us and many of our students who attended feel so welcome and help them get connected with the tech ecosystem: Eloisa E., Denny Lee, Mae LaPresta, Zhichao D., Simran Kaur, NumFOCUS and many others we met.

Thank you CodeDay and LinkedIn Social Impact for your partnership and help hundreds of overlooked and underserved MinT CS students from Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Computing Talent Initiative at The California State University (CSU), and John Jay College (CUNY) get a free year of LinkedIn Premium to help them navigate and launch their careers in tech!

Join Mentors in Tech (mentorsintech.com) as a mentor, employer, or open-source capstone partner to support students like Callan Hercules: Great feature from North Seattle College celebrating Callan as a scholarship winner and recent intern at a biotech startup! Callan spent his junior year working with mentors Emily Cho (Applied Intuition) and Mudra Senjaliya (AVIV Group), along with working and earning his community's recognition and trust as an extended confirmed Wikipedia editor. We're happy to see Callan continue to build his skills and confidence as he works toward a full-time tech career! https://lnkd.in/gCqA3qbC Steve Balo Michelle Melero Campbell Eric Lloyd John H Lee Seattle Colleges #scholarship #scholarshipwinner #mentorship #mentoringmatters #mentoringprogram

We celebrate when MinT students and mentors advance their careers, and even better when the mentor was previously a student! Join Mentors in Tech (MinT) as a mentor, employer, or open source capstone partner to help people like Johart Aguiniga find success in tech and then pay it forward: mentorsintech.com As a North Seattle College student, Johart collaborated with his mentors to pivot his career from Safeway store manager to AI Cloud Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, where he applied his engineering and customer care skills to support clients like Microsoft. Johart took on two new roles in 2024: Senior Data Analyst at Avanade, and MinT mentor. Thank you Johart for becoming a mentor to help current students work toward the success you've attained! High five to Johart's past MinT mentors Jacqueline M. (Avanade) and Jonathan Guerin (Microsoft) and the North Seattle College team for helping make these stories possible! Steve Balo Eric Lloyd John H Lee #cloudengineer #dataanalyst #consultant #mentorship #mentoringmatters #mentoringprogram

We're kicking off the new year by celebrating MinT grad James Motherwell on joining Microsoft as a Software Engineer! Partner with Mentors in Tech to help tech students from smaller, less well known colleges launch engineering careers: mentorsintech.com While attending Green River College, James built relationships with his MinT mentors and classmates that helped him achieve academic excellence while serving as a department intern, peer mentor, and club leader. As winner of the Green River College Data & Software Programs BAS student award, we knew James's next step would be impressive! Huge high fives to the MinT mentors who have partnered with James: Balaji Subramanian (LinkedIn), David Gray (Gramamoto), Doug Bergman (Cisco), Christopher Kempke, and Marianne G.! Tyler Schrock Andy O. Josh Archer Kendrick Hang Roseann Berg Matthew Swenson #newjob #newyear #softwareengineer #earlyinprofession #collegehire