Holberton School Co-founder Sylvain Kalache sharing how Holberton uses Docker containers to train Software Engineers, providing a high-quality and bias-free education, at scale.
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2. College alternative training Software Engineers
Free until students find a job*
No prior degree or coding knowledge required
Open to anyone 18+
Project & peer-based education
In-person education (come check our SF campus!)
What’s Holberton?
* Application & approval into Holberton Deferred Tuition program required
4. Fundamentals:
● Low level, data structure & algorithms
● Web dev
● SRE
+ Soft skills!
Specialization:
● AR/VR, machine learning, on the job training...
What’s Holberton?
5. What’s Holberton?
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Jeff Weiner
LinkedIn CEO
Solomon Hykes
Docker Founder
Stephane Kasriel
Upwork CEO
Priyanka Chopra
Actor & social activist
NE-YO
Singer
Jocelyn DeGance
Graham
CloudNow CEO
6. 505,817
Open computing jobs
nationwide
Why Holberton?
$1.5T
Student loan debt
5%
Hispanic or Latino
US population: 18%
19%
Women
US population: 51%
4%
Black or African American
US population: 13%
25%
Employers are satisfied with
college talent
Current Software Engineer Demographics
10. Scalable
Accessible & Fair
Admission
No human bias
No discrimination
No bribes possible
Only motivation & talent matter
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11. Our students
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35%
Women
60%
People of color
30%
Speak another language at home
18 to 57
Age range
40%
First generation post-
secondary students
12. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Training
Software led
Projects only – no lectures
Community led
Helping != cheating
Learning how to learn
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14. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Training
Checker
10M lines of code analyzed
every week
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15. Half a billion lines of code a year
= 3 Transamerica Pyramids stacked on top of each other
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16. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Training
No favoritism
Work at their own rhythm
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17. Scalability & QUality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Training
Instant correction
Iterate on the curriculum or
provide assistance to student
Bonus: container on demand
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18. Success
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$108,000 / yrAverage full-time salary of Year 2 graduates
working in the US
100%of our graduates have found an employment
opportunity within 3 months of graduation
19. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Expansion
Same quality of education
2016: 30 students
2019: 500 students
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20. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Expansion
Offer our education to many,
anywhere
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22. Scalability & Quality
Accessible & Fair
Velocity
Expansion
Monitor and adjust
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23. All of this is possible thanks to
Our Software Team
👉🏽
@gautie_a@victormdnguyen@bchen803
@guillaumesalva @srinitude @KYIsaacWong
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