I'm about a third of the way through fullstack dev bootcamp (Python backbone), wrapping up in mid-to-late July. I spent 16 years in journalism, the last four split ~50/50 as a news and features page designer and in News Systems as an apps developer with a touch of sys admin and analysis thrown in. My passion lies at the nexxus of investigative journalism and public interest law, and defines the rough scope of most of the projects in my student portfolio thus far. My preference apres bootcamp is to hone my dev skills further while serving the public good but I'd be quite content working for a startup (or airline ) in the PDX or SEA metro areas to build street cred. I've done informational interviews already with small software startups to eBay, private law firms to the Federal Public Defenders Office, as well as with current and former colleagues in journalism.

I'm very fortunate to have a deep well of networking contacts in journalism and through my 18 years on FT (14 years as a mod) and simply by reaching out to those I admire but am ready to cast the networking net a little wider to see what's what. My Github profile will be fleshed out in the coming weeks and will of course update this thread and my FT profile with a link.

Just wanted to pop in and formally toss my hat in the ring. Feel free to PM or email me via FT.

As always, happy contrails. :-: