Meet Our Mentors
1-on-1 support from industry experts
Our mentors and tutors elevate your learning experience from great to amazing, pushing you to achieve excellence.
CareerFoundry mentors have decades’ worth of experience under their belts from such noteworthy companies as Google, Microsoft and Twitter, so you can rest assured that their cumulative knowledge of the industry is second to none. Through them, you’ll get insights, connections, and
industry-related knowledge that no textbook could ever teach.
If you’re interested in becoming a CareerFoundry Mentor, you can learn about mentoring here.
Students rate CareerFoundry mentors 4.85 out of 5 (from over 6000 reviews)
The Mentor Advisory Board
Meet the board of advisors who inform our decisions with their expert knowledge and first-hand feedback:
Maria de la Riva
Abhi Bhattacharya
Olga Voskoboinikova
Fabio Cantoni
Shyamala Prayaga
Meredith Cohen
We’re incredibly proud of the relationships that we have with our Mentors and Tutors. Not only are their skills and previous experience invaluable to the education of their students, they also have a profound effect upon the way we run CareerFoundry.
We love to gather feedback from a variety of our highly skilled mentors and thus we rotate the board on a yearly basis to ensure we hear from all of the amazing minds working alongside CareerFoundry.
Meet our Mentors and Tutors
Omar Mekky
Tutor
We have grown very dependant on the internet and on cloud services. Web development is just the right place to be in the 21st century.
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A day in the life of a Web Developer
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Omar’s career in web development, which began at a very early age. His education in development began as an autodidactic endeavor when he was just 13. “My passion has always been to build stuff...
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Mary Shaw
Mentor
I’ve had no trouble finding work over the last 10 years. What’s missing is the next generation of junior UXers with the knowledge and skills to do a good job.
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A True Career Changer: From Musician to UX Designer
CareerFoundry UX Design mentor Mary Shaw knows what it’s like to make a big life change. In fact, she’s made a few. Earlier in her career Mary made the leap from being a professional touring musician to project manager at a design agency...
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Paddy Donnelly
Mentor
Mentoring with CareerFoundry has been an eye-opening experience for me. As my students question why we do certain things certain ways, it's made me rethink a lot of the automatic design decisions I make, which is healthy to do every so often.
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Hesham Abd-Elmegid
Mentor
Prioritize focusing on what matters over all distractions and you will get there faster than most.
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Zubair Shams
Mentor
Mentoring is a key for successful career change. Having a good mentor that knows how to motivate and guide during the difficult phase leads to ultimate success.
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