We’re excited to offer a new cloud data engineering track in partnership with Epicodus beginning March 14!

This new track will run on the same schedule as the web development cohorts. It will have courses in Intro to Programming, Data Engineering Fundamentals, Big Data Engineering, and Cloud Data Engineering, followed by an internship. This track also offers a comprehensive career services curriculum, and after you graduate, we'll provide a year of career services assistance while you look for your first job in the tech industry. If you’d like to take a closer look at what to expect out of this track, you can check out our course overview here: https://www.epicodus.com/data-engineering

Did you know…

There are currently 40K Data Engineering jobs on Indeed! In fact, the 2020 Dice Tech Job Report found it had the largest increase of all tech jobs between 2019 and 2020. AND 81% of data companies plan on hire more Data Engineers.

The newest course offered by Epicodus and Data Stack Academy—which starts March 14th—helps students break into the Data Engineering field. These Portland-based companies curated a state licensed 27 week course—which includes an internship.

So what do Data Engineers do? They build the infrastructure that manages an organization’s data. Companies are collecting more data than ever before. In 2020, they amassed 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. That data is becoming their most valuable asset. Companies want people like you to manage it.

|| About Data Stack Academy’s founder ||

Parham Parvizi is a founding member of Tura.io and DataStack.Academy. Tura is a group of professional Cloud Data Engineers and Architects while Data Stack Academy is the most comprehensive Data Engineering bootcamp; training the future of Cloud Data Engineers.

Parham has been a Data Engineer and Cloud/Big Data Solution Architect for nearly 20 years working for major silicon valley tech companies. He started by loading floppy disks into an IBM 8086 machine to play games at the age of five. He learned programming as a teenager by hiding bookmarks on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. He now guides companies as a senior advisor on their digital transformation to the Cloud.

Parham is an Apache Software Foundation contributor and was an early adopter and contributor to open source Big Data projects as Map Reduce and Hive. He was one of the founding members of Talend and helped their growth in the Americas and Asia Pacific market during the early years of the company. As a Talend ambassador, he’s trained thousands of users around the world. Later, he served as a Big Data Product Manager at Pivotal (currently known as Vmware Tanzu). He was a team member for Greenplum Distribution of Hadoop and led the team behind a Hadoop distributed SQL query language called HAWQ.

As a Data Advisor and consultant, Parham’s has had the opportunity and pleasure to work with nearly every fortune 100 company over the years. From managing thousands node clusters to optimizing data task that you are familiar with behind the scenes.

|| About Epicodus ||

Our president, Michael Kaiser-Nyman, founded Epicodus in 2012. After becoming frustrated with how difficult it was to hire programmers for his software company, he talked with other employers and discovered he wasn't alone. At the same time, he knew many people who were struggling to find work. He realized that if there were a school that taught practical software development skills, people could get great jobs and companies could hire the staff they need.

Epicodus's first class started in early 2013 with just Michael and 8 students. Since then, we've grown to over a dozen staff and over two thousand students and alumni.

Epicodus is hosting a Demo Day! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Check out work put together by our graduates!

While this event is normally in person, with the health and safety of all in mind we will be conducting this event virtually. If anything changes closer to the date and able to make this event in person, we will update this description and let you know.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office this coming Thursday! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

Epicodus is hosting a Demo Day event at our office from 1-3pm on Thursday, August 1st. Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

We would like to extend an invitation to you to Epicodus's upcoming Demo Day on Thursday, May 23rd. Demo day will be held at Epicodus, located right downtown Portland: 400 SW 6th, Suite 800. Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring our graduates or partnering with Epicodus, we'd love to have you!

The event will be running from 1p.m. to 3p.m. Feel free to join us at any point to check out the open house. Additionally, for companies who are attending with the intent to hire, we will have on site interview space available. Demo day is entirely free to attend, but we do ask that you let us know if you're coming and how many people will be attending with you for logistical purposes.

Let me know if you have any questions at all! So that we can plan for refreshments, if you’d like to attend, please RSVP via the link below:

https://forms.gle/7uJVJGEfDJCuea2L6

NOTE: Location Change We'll be at Epicodus this month!

5:30 Mingle + Pizza 6:00 Nick Luallin has been both an external and an in-house recruiter (at Vacasa), and he'll be giving you a behind-the-curtain look at recruiters to help you navigate this very strange aspect of the technical job market.

Are you on our slack? https://epicodusalumni.slack.com is the place to get in touch with alumni from across classes. Check in with a co-organizer if you're not on it. Please read and follow our code of conduct for all Epicodus Alumni events: https://tinyurl.com/epiconduct

If you're contemplating attending a code school, academy or bootcamp this will be a great opportunity to learn from previous and current students. A handful of panelists from Epicodus and Alchemy Code Lab will join us and they will share with us some of their experiences, challenges both in school and in hunting for jobs.

There will be plenty of Q&A time so get your questions ready so you can make better choices.

We are excited to host our first Meetup at Vacasa in the Pearl Distrcit (Downtown PDX).

More details to come!

Please RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/LatinxTechPDX/events/259793264/

Note: We're meeting on the final Thursday of the month this time.

Tech Interviews Part 1: What Employers Want Mark Hayden, Engineering Manager at Lytics, will be talking about what managers are really looking for when interviewing a candidate for a technical role. Feel free to bring questions.

Bonus: Get the details on hack nights in 2019.

Please read and follow our code of conduct for all Epicodus Alumni events: https://tinyurl.com/epiconduct

We're kicking off the new year by cohosting a meetup with the PDXFLIT (Future Leaders in Tech) group. Join us on January 28th for a night of networking, mingling, and education as we host talks by two of the best speakers that the Portland tech scene has to offer. Perry Eising and Jason Lengstorf will be giving talks related to conquering imposter syndrome and getting starting in the tech industry.

Jason is a developer advocate at Gatsby, and Perry is a community developer at Netlify and previously helped educate the next generation of developers as the faculty lead at Epicodus.

Doors will be open at 5:30 PM and talks will start at 6. We encourage you to show up early to give ample time for networking, conversation, and refreshments. We will have this space until 8 PM.

This month, refreshments will be provided courtesy of Thinkful. Thinkful is an online coding bootcamp that is helping the next generation of software developers transition into the tech industry. They host a variety of events in Portland and are always accepting new students. If you're interested in learning more, be sure to check out their site at https://www.thinkful.com/.

We kindly ask that you abide by the following Code of Conduct when attending this event: https://www.meetup.com/pdxFLIT-Portland-Future-Leaders-In-Tech/photos/28737494/471776346/

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, November 10th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, November 11th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday,October 6th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

*If you ride your bike, please do not bring it into the lobby or elevators. You may lock it up at bike racks on the street near our office.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office on Thursday, October 4th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

Demo Day is free to attend, but for planning purposes, please RSVP to our eventbrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/epicodus-demo-day-event-tickets-49957865320

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, September 8th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, September 8th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, July 28th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office on Thursday, July 26th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

This event is free, but for logistics purposes, please rsvp at the website link provided if you plan to attend!

July has a reputation for scorching hot temperatures - especially in the afternoons and early evenings. Luckily, you can beat the heat by spending your Wednesday evening with pdxFLIT! This month, our event will revolve around diversity and inclusivity. It will feature a few all-star speakers and some time to mingle and interact outside of speaking time. This month, you'll have a chance to see the following presentations:

Tiberius Hefflin - "The Monster On the Project". Tiberius works for Go Boldly. She will be speaking about working and dealing with toxic coworkers.

Perry Eising - "This Is the Signal You've Been Waiting For: Diversity, Economy, and Messaging". Perry is a former faculty lead from Epicodus. They have contributed a wealth of knowledge to the Portland tech community. Perry's latest Medium article is about making tech events more gender inclusive. You can find it here: https://blog.usejournal.com/gender-inclusive-tech-events-a-hands-on-how-to-guide-ec93ee477035

Marcus Carter - 'Diversity and Inclusion In the Workforce: Themes, Trends, and What We Might Do Differently". Marcus is a recruiter at Cloudability.

This month's event is generously being sponsored by Puppet. Food and drinks will be provided at this event. We're always looking for sponsors to help provide refreshments, catering, and other resources for future events. If you are interested in helping us with this in the future, please contact Masen at [email protected].

pdxFLIT is also looking for volunteers! If you're interested in volunteering with us, there will be information about it at this event. Information about these opportunities will also be coming via Meetup and other online forums (Twitter, Slack) in the coming weeks.

Doors open at 5 30 PM and talks will happen at roughly 6 PM. There will be time for mingling, conversation, and networking outside of the speaking times. If you need to come a bit later, don't worry about getting locked out! Just post on this page and somebody can come downstairs and let you in. This event will be happening at Puppet Labs on SW 2nd Avenue.

Are you interested in speaking at a future pdxFLIT event? We're always looking for speakers - no experience is necessary! If you're interested in giving a talk, please contact Katie at [email protected].

We kindly ask that you abide by our Code of Conduct and Puppet's Code of Conduct when attending this event. They can be found at the following destinations:

Puppet: https://puppet.com/community/community-guidelines#event-code-of-conduct

pdxFLIT: https://www.meetup.com/pdxFLIT-Portland-Future-Leaders-In-Tech/photos/28737494/471776346/

5:30 Meet&Greet + Eat

6:00 Hannah Neal: Worksource You’re not alone. Worksource Portland Metro has a lot of services for job-seekers, and especially for those seeking to switch into a career in tech. Hannah will give a mini-talk/overview of what’s available.

6:20 Aaron Krause: Debugging in JS To say debugging is a crucial skill would be an obvious understatement. Aaron is going to talk about (front-end) debugging philosophy. Not philosophy like if an object falls in the woods and nobody has the keys, does it even have a value, but more like How to know what you don’t even know you don’t know.

7:00 Hang out/Network/Maybe form a team to code stuff that will blow everyone away and the rest of us can say we were there when you came up with it.

ResearchOps, an outgrowth of DesignOps, is a new and fast-growing field focused on managing research at scale and reducing operational inefficiencies. The ResearchOps Community (https://researchops.community) is now 700+ strong.

Since its creation, the Slack Community has become a place for people from all walks of research and design life to exchange ideas, know-how, and, yes, frustrations, about the running of research teams and projects.

The ResearchOps Community is running a series of global workshops to produce some kind of actionable framework for ResearchOps, and we're representing team USA with this workshop in Portland!

Anything that we (and the global community) produce out of the workshops will be open-source: made by all who take part, shared back to you, and free to use.

Some of the questions we’d like to explore are:

1. What do you think ResearchOps includes?
2. What research operational challenges have you experienced?
3. What are your operational successes, if any?
4. Where do you see opportunities to improve research operations in your organization?
5. What should our Community do for its members?

If there are questions you’d like to explore in addition to these let us know and we’ll make time for them!

Learn more about the global workshop series here: https://medium.com/researchops-community/researchops-community-a-series-of-global-workshops-d48058ece814

AGENDA 5:30pm: Networking 6:00pm: Welcome, workshop overview 6:30pm: Explore ResearchOps and share stories (we’ll take breaks) 8:15pm: Wrap-up, next steps

Complimentary food and drinks will be provided!

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, June 23rd, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, May 19th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day free event at our office on Thursday, May 17th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates! If you're interested in attending, please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/epicodus-demo-day-event-tickets-44770507794

Please Note: We are back at Epicodus this month as eBay is doing work on their community lounge.

5:30: Meet & Greet & Eat

6:00: Introducing Microservices Maureen Dugan is a full-stack dev who's been at New Relic for the past 3 years. She'll be giving a high-level talk on microservices, explaining what they are and why microservice architecture has become so popular recently.

6:30-8: Hack/chat We'll have some time afterwards to chat about anything/everything. Working on a project? Now could be your time to get some contributions. Want to work on something BIG? Check in with Phil &/or Benjamin. We have ideas...

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, April 14th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, April 14th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, March 10th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, February 3rd, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, February 3rd, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

BRING YOUR RESUME! Details below...

5:30-6:00: Meet & Greet (& Eat! Food is provided by our gracious sponsor: eBay.)

6:00-6:30: AWS-ome Ryan Jones will present on why AWS and cloud computing is importnant for graduates, as well as a recommended path for getting started. (If you're looking for another way to set yourself apart, AWS is in high demand.)

6:35-7:05: Ready Your Resume In this interactive workshop led by Maigen Thomas, we will work collectively to optimize our resumes using two easy-to-implement tips that you'll walk away able to use forever. Bring a printed copy of your resume as well as a printed copy of a job description or two that appeals to you. We'll also need one volunteer with a digital copy of their resume to show on screen.

7:05-8: Resume 1:1s Maigen has agreed to stick around after her workshop to do some 1:1s, and we're planning to have a few more resume-polishing gurus on hand as well. We will have a sign-up sheet for resume 1:1s when you come in, so please bring your resume in order to take advantage of this opportunity.

We're excited to start 2018 with a bang! We've gotten some great suggestions for speaking topics and activities, but we're always ready to hear more about what you want from your meet-up. Check in with Caleb, Phillip, or Benjamin any time.

Registration through Eventbrite is required to avoid having to manually check-in at the event.

Interested in joining the stellar crew of PDXWIT volunteers? New to volunteering with us? Want to meet other capable, driven women and allies in tech? You'll be in the right place at our winter volunteer orientation. PDXWIT is a 100% volunteer-run organization, which means that volunteers are crucial to the success of our mission. There are plenty of ways to get involved. At the orientation, you'll learn about different volunteer roles, from regular engagements to occasional gigs, get an overview of expectations and processes, have any questions you bring answered, and catch up with other PDXWIT community members. We can't wait to welcome you!

Agenda

5:30 Doors Open

5:45 Program Begin

Introduce attendees to PDXWIT

Provide overview of:

Volunteer Agreement

Different types of volunteer roles

Example of some of the Regular teams

Review upcoming volunteer needs

7:00 Program Ends

Event FAQ Q: What is the parking situation? A: Off street parking only.

Q: Is there secured bike parking? A: Yes - The host can accommodate bike parking in the basement vault for the hours of the event only, and bikes would be stored at owner’s risk. They ask for advance notice to get an idea of space needed.

Q: Should I consider using public transportation? A: Yes

Purpose PDXWIT is a community-based non-profit organization. Our purpose is to strengthen the Portland women in tech community by offering educational programs, partnerships, mentorships, resources and opportunities. We are unifying a supportive environment for current and potential women in tech, all of whom are committed to helping each other. Our goal is to bring together and empower women in tech and to encourage others to pursue tech careers. This is our step towards reducing the gender imbalance in the industry and addressing the current negative effects of that imbalance on women.

Our events are inclusive. ALL people who support our purpose are welcome.

A meet-up for alumni of the code school Epicodus.

5:30-6:00: Meet, Greet, & Eat (food provided by our gracious sponsors at eBay!)

6:00-6:30: Satchel Grant will walkthrough a couple algorithm challenges and talk through the problem solving process.

6:30-8:00: Hack 'n' Stuff Satchel will stick around if you want to keep working algorithms. If you've got a project you're working on and would like some more help, give the quick details (what it is, what languages) and maybe you'll find some volunteers. Wanting to enter a contest or turn your brilliant idea into a start-up? It could start right here.

Or you can work solo, but with plenty of company around in case you get stuck. Or hang out with your fellow alums, catching up, networking, et cetera.

If you're not on our epicodusalumni slack, we'll get you invited to it on the spot.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, December 2nd, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, October 21st, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, October 21st, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.