James O'kelly
IOS Developer & App Creator
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Okelly is a founder and principal instructor who turned a lifelong obsession with computers into Devschool, an online coding bootcamp focused on human-centered mentorship and practical job readiness. With a decade of experience mentoring bootcamp graduates and iterating on curriculum, hiring, and sales, he blends hands-on coding fluency (rooted in early C/BSD and open-source work) with real-world startup grit. Jim’s unconventional path—from self-taught hacker and road-tripping nomad to writing live code to win an Intel job—gives him a knack for spotting talent and teaching learners who don’t fit traditional molds. He’s equally comfortable shipping technical solutions and building the processes that help others launch careers, and he continues to push beyond his “old paygrade” into sales, growth, and team-scale coaching. Notably, Jim trademarked and grew Devschool from a small mentoring brand into a scalable online program that sustains itself and attracts committed partners.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Moderatorship), Computer Science, B.A. (Moderatorship), Computer Science at Trinity College DublinHigh School, High School at Cistercian College RoscreaMSc, Applied Mathematics, MSc, Applied Mathematics at University of Limerick
Github Skills (16)
finder7
nodejs6
database5
javascript5
sqlite4
orm4
mysql4
postgresql4
chruby3
sql3
vim1
homebrew1
shell1
zsh1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
devschool-rocks/homepage
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:217 commits, 1 PR, 333 pushes in 6 months
devschool-rocks/dominoes-js
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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