Toronto Coding Bootcamp - Lighthouse Labs

Toronto Instructors:Learn from Toronto's Top Developers.

Juan Gonzalez

Web Instructor

Full Time Instructor, Toronto

Juan is a Software Engineer who allegedly sold his first project in 1988. Whatever language was used to develop it has been forgotten. More recently he has been an entrepreneur with a passion for all things video.
Faisal Al-Tameemi

Web Instructor

Instructor, Toronto

Faisal is an entrepreneur, technology architect and Founder of Root education. When he’s not brainstorming how to improve minds and systems you can find him watching Netflix or people watching at a coffee shop.
Fabio Neves

Web Instructor

Instructor, Toronto

If you travelled back in time to 2007, you’d find Fabio working on one of the first deployments of Amazon AWS. Today he splits his time between freelancing, consulting and producing music. Fact: we keep the tools locked up when he’s around, because his love of hacking hardware has been known to void warranties.
Rafal Dittwald

Web Instructor

Instructor, Toronto

Rafal studied systems engineering, but has been developing software since forever. At Lean Pixel he is a partner for the “Meta startup”, housing several different startups within it. Before that, he founded a startup, worked as a consultant developer, and then helped develop curriculum mapping software at U of Toronto.
Jon Salis

Web Instructor

Functional Imperative

Jon has spent five of his ten years focusing on Ruby/Rails. He is currently the CTO of Functional Imperative where he mentors several bootcamp grads, bringing his insight as an employer to the training process. When not working on cryptocurrency projects, you can find Jon having a beer after a competitive hockey game.
Ram Bansal

Web Instructor

Rangle.io

Ram is a bootcamp graduate, and he cut his teeth in web development by founding a startup for sports league management. Before that, he designed automated train control systems with an average daily ridership of 1M people.
Maggie Moss

Web and Intro to Web Instructor

CareerJSM

Maggie was part of our rockstar January 2015 cohort in Vancouver, and now she's passing on that knowledge to our students in Toronto. She's moved across the country three times in the last year and a half, most recently to join the team at CareerJSM.
Ivan Cheung

iOS Instructor

Singspiel Inc.

Entrepreneur and CTO specializing in full-stack iOS and web development with over 9 years professional experience. Experienced in leading software design teams from ideation to product distribution. Ivan speaks 3 languages, plays 3 instruments, and is also an expert in Judo.
Raeid Saqur

iOS Instructor

Ecobee Inc.

Coder, entrepreneur, mobile evangelist, algo-addict. Raeid is an expert in Smart/Connected Homes, Machine Learning, and FinTech. He has also played 3 different sports professionally - soccer, cricket and chess.
James Cash

iOS Instructor

Lean Pixel

James is a Co-Founder and Lead Developer at Lean Pixel. In addition to his expertise in both Web and iOS development, James also competes in various powerlifting & strongman competitions and events throughout Canada. You wouldn't want to mess with this developer.
Rob Jackiewicz

Web Instructor

BrewBox

Rob is a start-up veteran, and is now running his own craft beer and alcohol e-commerce business. BrewBox is like the Dollar Shave Club of craft beer! Rob is also an expert in Rails, Angular, nodeJS, Python, and DevOps.
Steve Thompson

iOS Instructor

CocoanutMobile

Steve has a background in academic philosophy. He started programming as a full stack web developer. Five years ago he was abruptly thrown in the deep end when he was hired as a native iOS developer without knowing a line of Objective C! His grit, passion and sympathy for learning is infectious.
David Mills

Instructor

Instructor, Toronto

David has been working as a Web and Mobile developer for the last 7 years. In that time he’s worked for a Digital Agency, where he helped build, test and launch websites for brands such as Adidas, Sleeman and McCain. Always looking for a challenge, David teaches both Web and iOS at Lighthouse!
Kareem Sabri

iOS Instructor

Clementine

Kareem is a full-stack web and mobile engineer. After spending 10 years helping build large-scale web applications at Save.ca and Box.com, he ventured into iOS development to create an AI personal trainer, EverActiv. When he’s not instructing, he leads Clementine, a startup focused on the future of work.

You will also be supported by a community of developers.

Toronto Staff:

Rachel Greenspan

General Manager, Toronto

Rachel's job is to make our Toronto office run smoothly. Her background is in international affairs, but she's always found herself surrounded by engineers - both personally and professionally. At LHL, she embraces a similar contrast: she finds herself to be a cat person in an office of dog lovers.
Juan Gonzalez

Full Time Instructor, Toronto

Juan is a Software Engineer who allegedly sold his first project in 1988. Whatever language was used to develop it has been forgotten. More recently he has been an entrepreneur with a passion for all things video.
Sumiya Abdirashid

Education Manager - Toronto

As a self-identified nerd, Sumi feels right at home at Lighthouse Labs. Her background working in student success and community engagement make her job as Education Manager both fulfilling and fun. When she's not chatting with students or mentors she can be found putting her Neuroscience degree to good use by sharing fun-facts about the brain.
Alexis Fefer

Admissions Manager, Toronto

Alexis is a wannabe techie and podcast enthusiast. Drawing on her background in HR and recruiting, Alexis helps Lighthouse find other wannabe techies and set them on the path to become aspiring web developers. She may be a small person, but she helps people achieve big goals!
Izzy Piyale-Sheard

Community Manager, Toronto

An adventurer at heart and possibly the most positive person on Earth. Izzy's job is to find ways to grow, connect, and diversify Lighthouse Labs within the Toronto tech-community and improve the student experience. He firmly believes space-dinosaurs are real.
Alix Ali-Dib

Marketing & Community, Toronto

As the Events and Marketing intern, Alix eagerly cultivates a community around Lighthouse Labs. Her passion for cultivation extends beyond work – she recently received an in-game award on the Hay Day iPad app for three years of farming excellence.
Joann Lai

Jr. Full Stack Web Intern, Toronto

Joann is a Queen's and Lighthouse grad who can often be found coding away in a onesie on Thursdays. She is a self-proclaimed air hockey master, a huge fan of TFC, and supposedly a Hogwarts honour student.. We're still not sure about the last one.
Topaz Glazer

Brand Strategist, Toronto

Topaz was the heart and soul of the HTML500 . Now, she spends her time in Toronto staring out the window and thinking about the Big Picture. She's always baking treats for students and has an inexplicable love of raisins.
Kate Ciborowski

People & Culture, Toronto

Kate has an eye for talent that she uses to help us recruit the instructors and mentors you see on this page. She is passionate about building learning communities and facilitating knowledge sharing. Her earliest career aspiration was to be rockstar and after seeing her karaoke chops, we believe it!
Amy Mansell

Pizza Logistics, Toronto

Amy is a rare mixed breed of executor and planner all wrapped into one. She is the organizational wizard responsible for building and growing a community that students can thrive in. She is the reigning queen of reaction GIFs, who doesn't believe in having an inside voice.
Sherman

Head of Naptime

Sherman is part puppy, part sleepy-head, part nut-job. When Sherman isn't napping under Shaki's desk, you'll find him running around and eating garbage. His most important role is to remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.
Josh Borts

Founder & Advisor

Owner of software development company Functional Imperative. Previously Josh operated a crabbing vessel in Iceland but unfortunately was deported to Canada after his work visa expired. He has reapplied but Iceland has yet to respond.
Jeremy Shaki

Founder & Chief Talking Officer, Toronto

Jeremy Shaki is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lighthouse Labs. He is a Montreal native, Concordia University Poli Sci graduate, former Director of Marketing at Sugar Media, and he plays basketball pretty well. Or at least he says he does. Jeremy is very well versed in Marketing and Brand Strategies, Operational Structures, and Staffing, and has been applying those skills to his first love.. Education. He loves what he does, and he loves to talk about it. Beware.

Meet the rest of the team.

testimonials

What I love about being a dev, is not just the problem solving aspect and feature creation/development, but the culture and community is such a great fit for me. It’s something that's made me realize that this my career path. This is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life.

Previously: Lead Hand, Parker Johnson Roofing
Now: Developer at Unbounce

I gained the fundamentals of software engineering from university, but that doesn't teach you to be a hacker, who is good at developing a product in a fast-paced environment and is always ready to try out new technologies. This is what I learned from LHL.

Previously: Project Manager
Now: Software Engineer at Axiom Zen

Not only do you leave with a new skill set under your belt, you meet a significant amount of super talented and passionate people.

Previously: Designer
Now: Co-Founder of Fetch

Lighthouse Labs kickstarted my career, the curriculum is current, relevant and engaging. It was the best possible use of my time.

Previously: .Net Developer
Now: Developer at Retsly

Start Dates:

Web Development Bootcamp	Oct 2 - Nov 24	Oct 30 - Dec 22	Nov 27 - Feb 9	Jan 15 - Mar 9
	Feb 12 - Apr 6	TBA	TBA	TBA
iOS Development Bootcamp	Oct 30 - Dec 22	Jan 15 - Mar 9	Apr 9 - Jun 1	TBA
Intro to Web Development	Oct 30 - Dec 6	Jan 15 - Feb 21	Feb 26 - Apr 4	TBA
Intro to iOS Development	Oct 31 - Dec 7	Feb 27 - Apr 5	TBA	TBA

* Students must be 18+ years of age, or provide proof of High School graduation or equivalent.

Hello Toronto

Our home: Devhub

CurrentPrograms.

Intro to Web
Development

Web Development
Bootcamp

Intro to iOS
Development

iOS Development
Bootcamp

Toronto Instructors:Learn from Toronto's Top Developers.

Toronto Staff:

testimonials

Dollars & Deposits.

Start Dates:

Community Events

Our Student experience

Our Admissions Process

Hello Toronto

Our home: Devhub

CurrentPrograms.

Intro to WebDevelopment

Web DevelopmentBootcamp

Intro to iOSDevelopment

iOS DevelopmentBootcamp

Toronto Instructors:Learn from Toronto's Top Developers.

Toronto Staff:

testimonials

Dollars & Deposits.

Start Dates:

Community Events

Our Student experience

Our Admissions Process

Intro to Web
Development

Web Development
Bootcamp

Intro to iOS
Development

iOS Development
Bootcamp