[Chicago] Paid Mentorship

[Jay Kasturi]

Hi Brian! My name is Janani Kasturi (I go by Jay for short) and I believe
I'd be a perfect fit. My background is in front-end design/development,
with some Django experience, and have been taking online courses for data
science/statistics through Coursera to finish the certification course for
myself.

I'm originally from Austin, TX (definitely more of a Python town compared
to Chicago's Ruby), and have been freelancing on my own for a few years
now. I worked with a couple of people in your Ballers crew there at Chicon
Collective, Michael Henderson told me to ping him for an intro to you once
I got settled in:) I've been in and out of Chicago for the past couple of
years for contracting//family, and find myself at a point in my self-taught
path that I am in tremendous need of more guidance to pull together the
disparate tools that I've managed to learn on my own, especially in more
structured development environments and larger teams. A project like this
with mentorship built in would be the perfect grounding. I went to school
for history/linguistics (the Python/data science connection) but worked in
design/dev to help pay for things, and that's the hustle that stuck.

In Austin I also helped organize with PyLadies to put on workshops and and
Intro to Python classes using online course materials and exercises.
Unfortunately I barely missed the mentorship program cut-off here when I
moved.

Some work I've done in the recent past:

1) hackathon.iotwf.com - helped Cisco throw their huge hackathon here in
Chicago last fall for their IoT World Forum. I was in charge of building
the website, working with Cisco employees to provide various technical
resources for the teams, and contracted with Monkeybars
<http://monkeybars.io> to help coordinate and manage the project and event.

2) lightscamerahelp.org - a great organization in Austin that focuses on
documentary film driving social good.

If I sound like a good fit please do reach out to me! I'm a very motivated
learner, a thoughtful writer and am a student of my craft - given a chance
would absolutely jump at this opportunity to learn more.

thanks :)
~Jay

*c:* 704-236-5432
*e:* jay at doitwithdesign.com
    doitwithdesign at gmail.com
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