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Luke A Schlangen
Luke is a developer advocate at Google who believes learning follows excitement. He finds it rewarding to give approachable talks for beginners, because everyone is a beginner at something. He previously taught at a coding bootcamp.
After that, he led an onboarding program for new software engineers at a Fortune 500 company. Now at Google, he likes to introduce newcomers to the power of the Cloud.
Outside of his day job, he is a co-founder of Code Championship: a competitive computer coding program for 3rd to 9th grade students.