Michael Bethencourt
CTO, Lead Instructor at Kickstart Coding
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bethencourt is a seasoned CTO and educator with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications and scalable learning platforms from the Bay Area. He co-founded and grew Kickstart Coding into a sustainable business while leading development of Python/Django, Node.js, and React-based LMS and courseware that combine calendar, chat, video, and assessment systems. Equally at home in high-level architecture and low-level data work, he enjoys solving “full stack” problems where smarter JavaScript and backend data tweaks produce simple, maintainable solutions. A prolific instructor, he’s recorded 75+ hours of highly rated lectures, launched UC Berkeley Extension’s JavaScript bootcamp, and designed accessible workforce programs and laptop scholarships to broaden entry into tech. His engineering background includes performance and scaling wins at Tivix and Lucid, and early contributions to tooling at Facebook and Microsoft, reflecting a long history of practical systems thinking. He’s driven by a vision of a gleaming, Star Trek–like future and a belief that small data often matters more than people expect.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (59)
markdown10
printable10
latex10
on-the-fly10
pandoc10
javascript9
conversions9
manipulation9
herokuapp9
django-project9
slideshow9
stateless9
react-router-dom9
media9
react9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
modulojs/modulo
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:140 commits, 120 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
kickstartcoding/cheatsheets
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
A selection of printable, one-page cheatsheets, generated from Markdown using Pandoc & LaTeX
Contributions:106 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pandocselectionlatexprintableone-page
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