Meet The Team

Mr. Trinidad

Studio Manager

Trinidad was in the Navy for six years stationed in Bahrain and Italy. He is studying Communications at St Edwards and is from the Austin area. Trinidad is overseeing the rest of our awesome team.

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Ms. Kendall

Studio Coordinator

Kendall is a Computer Science major at Austin Community College. She likes to do crafts, go to theme parks, and go to concerts in her free time. She has two cats and a dog, Cooper.

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Mr. Austin 

Instructor (Chess)

Austin plays the viola and has directed tournaments for over 500 scholastic chess players, competing in over 100 tournaments himself. He has volunteered at the Department of Veteran Affairs and is a member of the National Honor Society.

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Mr. Eric

Instructor (Unreal, Unity, Blender)

Eric is a seasoned game developer and designer. Eric will be teaching Game Development and Graphics and has worked with Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya, C#, Lua, and more. He's released numerous games on the Google Play store and worked for EA. His game credits include The Simpsons Game, Godfather, Terminator Dark Fate.

Mr. Henry

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Chess, Roblox)

Mr Henry has been at My Coding Place for just over one year and is one of our students favorite instructors, teaching Chess, Scratch, Roblox and Python! We love having you on the team and look forward to another exciting year with you teaching virtually. 

Mr. Kia

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Java)

Kia has worked as a Virtually Reality developer using Unity and C# alongside the HTC Vive. He also has a year of development experience working with Java and SQL. His hobbies outside of work include brushing up on his programming as well as modding video games.

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Mr. Malik

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Math)

Malik is a freshman studying Computer Science at the Texas A&M Engineering Academy. In his free time, he loves to go out for hikes on beautiful nature trails as well as learning more to improve his programming skills.

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Ms. Reena

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Java, HTML)

Reena will teach Scratch, Python, HTML, and Java. She is an engineer from Central India who has been in the education field since 2009. Reena loves to cook and is a proud mom. 

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Mr. Sky

Instructor (Scratch, Python, JavaScript, GameMaker)

Sky teaches GameMaker, Python, and Scratch. His main hobbies outside of coding are digital art and writing. He participated in the National Novel Writing challenge in 2019. Sky is a first year student at Texas State University and has been doing a great job in his Python and GameMaker classes!

Mr. Vrishank

Instructor (Chess)

Vrishank is from Atlanta, Georgia and is 3rd Year Computational Engineering (CS + MechE) Major at the University of Texas at Austin! Hook Em Horns! Vrishank loves to play chess, hike, bike, run, lift, and play basketball! Vrishank also loves doing anything that involves a team. Some of Vrishank’s interests and passions include Data Science, Product Design, and Project Management.