whoami --all

Taught by people who've done the job

Every Northpath cohort is led live by an instructor with real industry years behind them — not a teaching assistant reading someone else's slides. Four people carry the programs; here's exactly who they are and where they've been.

~/team/priya-raman

Priya Raman

Lead Instructor, Web Development

Industry background

Nine years as a software engineer, most recently a senior engineer on a payments platform team, where she shipped checkout infrastructure used by tens of thousands of merchants and ran the team's code-review rotation.

How they teach

Runs the cohort like an engineering team: daily PR review, honest feedback, and a strict 'no magic' rule — if you can't explain your code, you're not done.

TypeScript
React
Code review culture
System design basics

~/team/marcus-webb

Marcus Webb

Lead Instructor, Data Analytics

Industry background

Former analytics manager at a national logistics company, where he built the dashboard suite three operations teams ran on daily and spent years translating between executives and databases.

How they teach

SQL-first pragmatist. Every dataset in his course is genuinely messy, because clean data is a textbook fiction — and every analysis ends in a memo someone could actually act on.

SQL
Statistics in practice
Dashboard design
Stakeholder communication

~/team/sofia-delgado

Sofia Delgado

Lead Instructor, UX Design

Industry background

Former staff product designer at a telehealth startup, where she led research and design through two product pivots and built the design system that survived both.

How they teach

Studio-style critique twice a week, and a portfolio-honesty rule: every case study must include what failed and what you'd do differently. Hiring managers can smell a fairy tale.

User research
Figma & design systems
Usability testing
Accessibility

~/team/devon-clarke

Devon Clarke

Director of Career Services

Industry background

Six years as an in-house tech recruiter before switching sides of the table — he has personally screened over 12,000 applications and knows exactly why most get rejected in 90 seconds.

How they teach

Career prep starts week 1, not after graduation. Runs mock interviews, salary-negotiation labs, and compiles Northpath's annual outcomes report — the honest one.

Job search strategy
Mock interviews
Salary negotiation
Outcomes reporting

cat teaching-principles.md

House rules for every cohort

No magic allowed

If you can't explain your code, your query, or your design decision out loud, it isn't done. Every checkpoint includes a verbal defense — because every job interview does too.

Feedback is specific or it's noise

"Looks good" is banned in code review and critique. Instructors model line-level, evidence-based feedback from week 1, and grads tell us it's the habit employers notice first.

Struggle is scheduled

You'll be stuck, on purpose, regularly — with a 20-minute rule before help arrives. Learning to be stuck productively is the single most job-relevant skill we teach.

Cohorts cap at 24 with one lead instructor and two TAs. Mentors — working engineers, analysts, and designers who take one 1:1 hour a week — round out the teaching bench. See what they teach

northpath --apply

Sit in before you decide.

Any applicant can audit one live session of any program before enrolling — watch the instructors work before a dollar changes hands.

Start an application Run the cost calculator first