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We started CodePath because the best way to learn software is to build it for real.
Five years. Three cities. Twelve cohorts a year. The only coding school founded by senior engineers still shipping production code every week — and it shows in how we teach.
Founded
Campuses · SF/NY/Remote
Hiring partners
Salary lift in 2024
Our mission
Make engineering careers accessible to anyone with the curiosity to learn.
We believe the gatekeeping in tech hiring is a bug, not a feature. The people who ship great software come from every background imaginable. We’re here to make that path shorter, clearer, and financially possible.
Build what’s real.
No tutorial projects. You’ll ship code to actual users, work with real constraints, and read real code.
Teach one-on-one.
Every cohort caps at 20. You get a named mentor and weekly code review — not a lecture hall.
Ship production habits.
We grade you on the same rubric your first team will: clarity, tests, and how you handle feedback.
Pay when it pays off.
Our Income Share Agreement means you don’t owe a dollar until you’re earning $60k+ as a developer.
Our story
Five years of shipping, iterating, and learning out loud.
A garage, three engineers, a hunch.
We started tutoring junior devs on nights and weekends. The waitlist grew faster than we could add mentors.
First cohort of 12.
Remote-first from day one. Every student got a capstone and a referral. 11 of 12 landed offers within 3 months.
AI track launches.
We saw where the industry was heading before most. Our AI track is now our fastest-growing program.
ISA goes universal.
Pay nothing up front. We win when you do. The model works — cohorts filled within 48 hours of announcement.
You join us.
Spring cohort opens March 14. Apply, interview, and find out if this is your year to ship.
The team
Engineers who still ship. Teachers by choice.
All instructors hold full-time engineering roles. They teach because they want to — not because it pays more than what they do Monday morning.
Priya Rao
Co-founder · Head of Curriculum
Staff engineer at Stripe, 10 years shipping payments infra.
Marcus Chen
Co-founder · Head of Mentorship
EM at GitHub. Former YC founder. Teaches full-stack.
Sara Oduya
AI Track Lead
ML lead at Hugging Face. PhD in NLP.
Diego Alvarez
Systems Track Lead
SRE at Vercel. Distributed systems specialist.
What’s next?
We’d love to meet you.
Book a 15-minute call with admissions or jump straight into course details. Whatever feels right.