Cloudera’s November Volunteer Highlight is Glaucia Esppenchutz, employees knowledge engineer, based mostly in Lisbon, Portugal.
Glaucia volunteers with Free Code Camp, a corporation based in 2014 that helps aspiring technicians be taught to code without cost.
By way of the creation and publication of movies, articles, and interactive coding classes—all freely accessible to the general public—Free Code Camp is ready to attain and prepare tens of millions of individuals yearly. Furthermore, since they’re not a bootcamp and supply their assets fully without cost, their supplies are simply built-in into and utilized by bootcamps globally, additional increasing their attain. Nonetheless, this implies they rely fully on the contributions of volunteers, equivalent to Glaucia, to advise on curriculum growth and to mentor learners.
Glaucia answered learner questions on the open discussion board, mentored students, and translated articles into Portuguese, making certain aspiring technicians in her group had entry to the total vary of assets Free Code Camp supplies.
“It was significant to me to have the ability to give information freely to folks all through the world and in my group, serving to folks acquire expertise wanted to get a job and enhance their life.”
Cloudera just lately introduced a brand new concentrate on tech jobs of the longer term. As a part of our dedication, volunteering alternatives just like the one Glaucia participated in can be made accessible to Clouderans throughout the globe. When requested if she inspired her colleagues to take part in such occasions, she responded unequivocally, “Sure, having information of one thing isn’t price it in case you don’t share it with others.”
Glaucia first began volunteering with Free Code Camp when she heard about it from friends within the coding and expertise group however now that she is concerned, she is hooked. “When you see how even a small quantity of labor can influence somebody’s life, it’s exhausting to cease volunteering. It’s important to maintain spreading data and together with extra folks within the tech world.”
At Cloudera, we’re dedicated to supporting Clouderans and the causes they care most about. The eagerness of Clouderans like Glaucia reinforces our dedication to reskilling for the tech jobs of the longer term and emphasizes the significance of making alternatives for our world workforce to mentor folks desirous about becoming a member of high-growth tech professions that will in any other case be inaccessible.
Be taught extra about Cloudera’s Reskilling for the Tech Jobs of Tomorrow initiative and observe alongside on our weblog for updates on the pilot 12 months of our program.
