Meet The Team

Katherine S

Studio Manager

Katherine is a former Store Manager and Account Manager who worked in a potency testing lab. She loves everything STEM! Katherine is an advocate for girls in STEM. She has a background in Ecology , and promotes logic based problem solving and creative design. She loves cuddling with her cat Phoebe and her home town St.Louis, MO.

Austin F

Studio Coordinator and Instructor

Austin graduated from Texas A&M College Station with a Bachelors of Science in Sociology. He's been in the education system as a middle school math teacher for four years and strongly advocates for critical thinking and logic skills to help scholars build an interest in the STEM fields. He's getting married this October and has a cat named Prada.

Mr. Daniel

Instructor (Coordinator)

Daniel graduated from UT Austin studying Economics and has a Master's in Data Analytics from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He enjoys everything about AI/Data and loves being able to teach STEM-related subjects. You can catch Daniel on the weekends walking his dog Atom or running and listening to music!

Ms Denise

Instructor (Python, Scratch)

Ms Denise works at SAP managing customer escalations.  She studied MIS at the University of Texas in Austin.

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. Josh

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Javascript)

Mr. Josh previously worked at My Coding Place in 2019. He is a graduate of an adult coding bootcamp and is currently pursuing a degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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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Mr. Joseph

Instructor (Scratch, Python, Java, C++)

Mr. Joseph is a third-year student at LASA who is president of the Computer Science club and also plays basketball and is involved in his youth group.

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. John

Instructor (Chess)

John is a senior at UT studying history with plans to attend law school in the near future. In his free time he enjoys playing tennis, hiking, and playing chess of course. He has been playing chess since the age of five.