Founders
Sylvain Kalache and Julien Barbier have been working in the tech industry for many years. Previously working at LinkedIn and Docker, the two of them are experienced Senior Software and Operations Engineers, with a passion for education and community.
Sylvain Kalache
Formerly: Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn
Sylvain is a fan of system automation. His former role as senior SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) at LinkedIn, gave him opportunity to manage infrastructures handling millions of views and document conversions. While at LinkedIn he also co-created an automation framework called Skynet.
Before that, Sylvain was part of the small Slideshare startup team, as a DevOps and key player that contributed to the LinkedIn acquisition in 2012.
During his free time, Sylvain helps multiple startups as their Technical Advisor and participates frequently in hackathons. Additionally he co-founded while42, a Tech Engineer Network with 3,000+ members in over 50 cities across the world.
Sylvain is a globetrotter, having lived in 13 cities in China, Russia, France, and the United States.
Julien Barbier
Formerly: Head of Growth & Community at Docker
Julien graduated as a valedictorian from the European Institute of Technology, one of the top software engineering school in Europe. Through his career Julien wore many hats: he worked as a Software Engineer, a Product Manager, a Director of Marketing and a CEO in different tech companies. Julien also co-founded three startups and co-created several non-profit projects (hnwatcher, techmeabroad, while42).
Before founding Holberton, he was the Senior Director of Growth, Marketing and Community at Docker, arguably one of the fastest-growing products for developers, devops and sysadmins over the last few years, now heavily used by companies such as Google, Uber, Spotify, Amazon. On top of growth hacking and community, Julien's specialties include low-level programming, system programming, and reverse engineering.
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton (1917-2001) was one of the six programmers of the ENIAC, which was the very first programmable computer, created in 1943 by the US Army.
In an environment when engineering and scientific research were considered to be jobs for males, programming, which was mistakenly considered to be clerical work at the time, was left for six female workers, who were not even allowed to see the computer!
Betty Holberton was one of the selected staff. Not only did she reveal herself as incredibly talented at putting down the foundations of what would later become our modern-day software engineering, but she went on to achieve numerous other historical breakthroughs. Most notably, she was later actively involved with the creation and design of the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages, which paved the way for modern languages.
One of the Holberton School’s goals is to find people who, just like Betty Holberton and her five colleagues at the time, might not come across as fitting the usual “software engineer” profile, but will nonetheless become leaders once in the industry, and give them the means to become just that.
On top of being proud to give voice to Mrs. Holberton's name, the founders of Holberton School are immensely grateful to Pamela Jane Holberton, Betty Holberton's daughter, for her blessing to use their family's name.
Investors
Trinity Ventures
Dan Scholnick
General Partner at Trinity Ventures
Daphni
Marie Ekeland
Co-founder & General Partner at Daphni
Reach Capital
Shauntel Poulson
General Partner at Reach Capital
AME Cloud Ventures
Jerry Yang
Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! & Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures
Omidyar Network
Isabelle Hau
Investment Partner
Omidyar Network
Ashley Beckner
Venture Partner
AME Cloud Ventures
Nick Adams
Managing Director at AME Cloud Ventures
Partech Ventures
Nicolas El Baze
General Partner at Partech Ventures
Jerry Murdock
Jeff Weiner
CEO at LinkedIn
Solomon Hykes
Founder & CTO at Docker
NE-YO
Singer and songwriter
Marc Verstaen
Board member at Docker, Founder and former CEO of Beatware
Jon Boutelle
Co-founder and former CTO of Slideshare
Louis Monier
Founder and former CTO of AltaVista
Stephan Ramoin
President & CEO at Gandi
Eric Bardin
Chief of Staff at Holberton School
Alice Zagury
CEO at TheFamily
Archad Burahee
Director at Hermes Strategy
Ed Zimmerman
Founder/Co-Lead at GrapeArborVC
Guillaume Thibaux
Co-founder and CEO at Quanta computing
Nikhil Nanda
CEO at Escorts Limited
Johan Euphrosine
Developer Programs Engineer at Google
Manfred Touron
CTO at Scaleway
Guillaume Lesur
Network Operations Manager Group at Vente-privee
Giorgio Regni
CTO at Scality
Laura Laban
Co-founder & CEO at Flying Development Studio
Ophélie Pubellier
Co-founder and CTO at NeuCoin
Gregory Renard
CTO & Chief Visionary Officer at XBrain
Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz
Founding Partner at Expon Capital
Romain Lamaison
Co-founder and Chairman at Quanta Computing
Trustees
NE-YO
Singer and songwriter
Stephane Kasriel
CEO at Upwork
Jocelyn DeGance Graham
CEO at CloudNOW
Solomon Hykes
Co-Founder & CTO at Docker
Priyanka Chopra
Actor, producer and social activist
Mentors
Holberton School students regularly interact with real-life software engineers and industry leaders. Mentors come to the school to share their experience and ensure that the curriculum stays up to date.
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Jaana Burcu Dogan
Sr. software engineer at Google
Ayesha Mazumdar
UX Engineer at Salesforce
Franck Yelles
Sr. software engineer at Apple
Previously: Google
Mason Fish
Software Engineer at Docker
Arnaud Coomans
Senior iOS Engineer at Instagram
Previously: Instaply
Neha Jain
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Previously: Slideshare
Jerry Cuomo
Fellow & CTO at IBM
Rick Harris
Software Engineer at Apple
Florent Crivello
Senior iOS Engineer at Uber
Tammy Butow
SRE Manager at Dropbox
Previously: Digital Ocean
Sarina D'Mello
Localization Manager at Pinterest
Previously: Zynga, Yahoo, Apple
Emmanuel Cron
Software Engineer III at Youtube
Previously: Google
Aude Hofleitner
Data scientist at Facebook
Previously: Berkeley
Jules Walter
Product manager at Slack
Nathaniel Felsen
DevOps Engineer at Medium
Previously: Square, Qualys
Kate Volkova
Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft
Previously: IBM, Google
Omar Alaouf
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn
Jérôme Petazzoni
Docker Tinkerer Extraordinaire at Docker
Reza Malekzadeh
Vice President of Business (Alliances, Products & Marketing) at Cumulus Networks
Previously: Cisco, VMware
Ludovic Landry
Senior iOS Engineer at Uber
Previously: Apple
Elodie Ferrais
Android Lead Developer at Ticketmaster
Previously: Live Nation
Junior Joanis
Software Engineer at Total Immersion
Olga Sergeeva
UX designer
Marc Verstaen
Board member at Anaxi
Previously: Oracle, Beatware, Apple, Docker
Stephane Blanchard
Director of Professional Services at Aspera
Mathieu Bastian
Founder at Gephi Consortium
Previously: LinkedIn
Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent
Design / developer advocate at Shopify
Previously: BBC, Financial Times, The Guardian, Salesforce
Gregoire Villain
Head of Product at Kentik Technologies, inc.
Previously: Netflix
Ariane Zambiras
Research Senior Analyst at Fabernovel
Previously: Berkeley
Cyprien Noel
Vision and Machine Learning Engineer at Flickr
William Brendel
Senior Research Scientist at Snapchat
Previously: Amazon, Youtube
Ophélie Pubellier
Co-founder & CTO at NeuCoin
Stephane Sezer
Software Engineer at Facebook
Previously: VMware
Nicolas Vincent
Senior Software Engineer at Techcrunch
Previously: Couchsurfing
Casey Brown
Manager Site Reliability Engineering at LinkedIn
Dan Scholnick
General Partner at Trinity Ventures
Florent Thoumie
Production Engineer at Facebook
Deepa Subramanian
Co-founder & CEO at Wootric
Previously: Salesforce
Gregory Kokanosky
COO & Co-Founder at TextMe
Ai Ching Goh
Co-Founder at Piktochart
Matthieu JOST
CEO & co-founder at Misterbnb
Ludovic Champenois
Tech Lead/Manager Google Cloud at Google
Previously: Oracle, Sun
Anne Hardy
Board of Trustees Member at Anita Borg Institute
Sebastien Tricaud
Principal Security Strategist at Splunk
Michael Ortali
Software Engineer at Square
Previously: Youtube, Pinterest, Google
Ashlynn Polini
DockerCon Manager at Docker
Alexis Lê-Quôc
CTO at Datadog
Previously: Orange, IBM
Nicolas Thiébaud
Software Engineer at Google
Previously: Square
Samuel Pasquier
Director of Product Management at Cisco
Sam Alba
Sr. Director of Engineering at Docker
Previously: Akamai
Arnaud Jamin
Technical Architect at Ubisoft
Stephan Ramoin
CEO at Gandi
Stéphan Gorget
Production Engineer at Facebook
Gregory Renard
CTO at xBrain
Previously: Microsoft
Louis Monier
Founder and former CTO of AltaVista
Eric In
Investment Director at Entrepreneur Venture
Previously: Société Générale
Jeremie Patonnier
Front-end expert at Mozilla
Previously: Clever Age
Laura Laban
Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Pilot at Flying Development Studio
Previously: Nvidia
Laurent Mascherpa
Co-Founder at Floop
Previously: Ubisoft
Thibault Bronchain
Developers Ambassador at Hyper
Louison Dumont
Founder at Bitproof.io
Armando Guereca
Lead Engineer at Banjo
Previously: Kwarter
Victor Coisne
Community Marketing Manager at Docker
Gaëlle Mangin
DevOps Engineer at Cloud Temple
Mickaël Camus
Founder and Chief Science Officer at Daneel
Gilles Chehade
System Software Engineer at Rentabiliweb
Georges Vieux
Senior database architect at ActivIdentity
Alex Khadiwala
Senior Engineer at Stitch Labs
Previously: Techcrunch
Nicolas Delecroix
Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco
Previously: Google
Sébastien Pahl
Engineering Manager at Mesosphere
Previously: Cloudflare, Docker
Jean-Claude Junqua
Vice President of Innovation and Product Development at Panasonic
Rostom Cheikh-Aissa
Quantitative Analyst Developer C/C++ at ENGIE
Vincent Delacourt
Co-founder & CEO at Adama Development
Selim Dogguy
CTO at Instaply
Olivier de Villardi
Web project manager & designer
Previously: MACSF
Nathan Leclaire
Open Source Engineer at Docker
Thomas Texier
Senior Gameplay Programmer at Ubisoft
Sylvia Gallusser
MBA teacher
Olivier Chatry
Senior Software Developer at XVison
Anta Aidara
Software Engineer at Natixis
Philippe Masset
Front-End Engineer at Buffer
Giorgio Regni
CTO at Scality
Michel Molongo
Software Engineer at Criteo
Blake Haggerty
Talent Guy at CoreOS
Matthew Goldstein
Associate at Trinity Ventures
Pascal Bouchareine
CTO at Gandi
Rudy Rigot
Engineering Lead at Salesforce
Previously: Apple
Aswin Pranam
Engineering Program Manager at Google
Previously: IBM, Boeing, The Walt Disney Company
Boris Guenebaut
Software Engineer, Technical Customer Support at Here
Johann Kerbrat
Software Engineer at Airbnb
Previously: Tilt
Damien Choizit
Managing Director at Group HN
Potluck Mittal
Engineer at Clever
Fabien Potencier
Founder of Symfony and currently CEO of SensioLabs and Blackfire
Guillaume Dumortier
Product and Digital Marketing Lead at Algolia
Jeremy Selier
Software Engineer at Google
Julien Chaintron
Graphics Engineer at Apple
Nicolas Chinot
Product Management & Business Development at Square Capital
Nora Poggi
Director at She Started It
Quentin Perez
Developer at Scaleway
Soham Mehta
Founder at Interview Kickstart
Emmanuel Turlay
Machine Learning & Software Engineer at Cruise Automation
Previously: StreamNation, Instacart
Maria Vercetti
Financial Analyst at Wells Fargo Bank
Jean-Baptiste Minchelli
Director of Product Management at Salesforce
Nicolas Bacca
CTO at Ledger
Arun Jay
Product Manager at Pinterest
Austen Collins
CEO at Serverless
Brian Balfour
VP Growth at Hubspot
Previously: Trinity Ventures
Guillaume Plessis
Senior System administrator
Previously: TextMe
Corentin Kerisit
Core team member at Zenly
Dominique Piotet
CEO and Chief Rebel at Fabernovel
Edouard Munck
CTO & Co-Founder at TextMe
Frank Denis
Software engineer at OVH
Previously: OpenDNS
Ludovic Galibert
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Previously: Attensity
Lamia Himdach
Volunteer Instructor at Girls Who Code
Paulin Laroche
CEO at Edecision
Lorine Salva
Designer at Anaxi
Previously: TextMe
Manfred Touron
CTO at Scaleway
Matthieu Tourne
Security Lead at Affirm
Previously: Cloudflare, Google
Sergey Skrobotov
Software engineer at Apple
Previously: LinkedIn, Yandex
Michael Brodsky
Project Director at Coutable
Jacopo Daeli
Head of Software Engineering at Pikichat
Evelyn de Souza
Consultant
Paul Guermonprez
Autonomous Drone Solutions Architect
Previously: Intel
Michael Kehoe
Staff SRE at LinkedIn
Xavier Lesage Moretti
Technical Customer Product Manager
Deon Nicholas
Founder at Forethought.ai
Adam Surak
Director Of Infrastructure at Algolia
David John Coleman II
Software Development Engineer at Pager Duty
Edoe Cohen
Director of Engineering at Zume Pizza