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Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with a focus on AI enabled development, agentic workflows, and practical engineering skills. Author of more than 130 courses across the LinkedIn Learning catalog lifecycle, including a growing set of AI titles that have reached millions of learners. Current active courses span AI prompting, agentic coding, Cursor 2 development, GitHub tooling, and full stack JavaScript, supported by several popular series such as Vibe Code This, Prompting with Agentic Techniques, and Build with AI.
Teaching emphasizes clear, repeatable workflows and real projects that help developers work with modern AI systems and production tooling. Courses consistently attract strong engagement from enterprise teams adopting AI assisted development patterns, while long standing GitHub and JavaScript titles continue to support foundational skills.
Experience includes building production grade demos, writing instructional content, and delivering technical talks for developer conferences and university programs. Background combines full stack engineering, multimedia development, and more than a decade of curriculum design for AI and software education.
Core Competencies
- AI augmented development and agentic workflows
- Full stack engineering in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python
- Technical instruction, communication, and developer education
- Video based teaching, scenario driven courses, and hands on builds
- Community engagement as a LinkedIn top poster
- Curriculum design for AI, software engineering, and modern tooling
- Collaboration with engineering teams through structured feedback and prototyping
Courses by Ray
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Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End1h 3m
Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End
By: Ray Villalobos
Articles by Ray
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whoa... the 64,000th feature claude code is the source code 😳 someones @ anthropic JUST ACCIDENTALLY exposed the full source code in a source map…
whoa... the 64,000th feature claude code is the source code 😳 someones @ anthropic JUST ACCIDENTALLY exposed the full source code in a source map…
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Coding skills got us here. Orchestration skills will define what's next. I've mapped out exactly what I think is coming and why it changes…
Coding skills got us here. Orchestration skills will define what's next. I've mapped out exactly what I think is coming and why it changes…
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Let’s be honest…When we don’t respect the boss, we do the bare minimum. I’ve been guilty of this. We all have. You clock in. Do the work. Go…
Let’s be honest…When we don’t respect the boss, we do the bare minimum. I’ve been guilty of this. We all have. You clock in. Do the work. Go…
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Experience
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LinkedIn
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Senior Interactive Designer
Tribune Interactive/The Orlando Sentinel
Education
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University of Central Florida
Bachelor's in Journalism Advertising & Public Relations
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BA Journalism
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Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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Net Magazine
Writer
See publicationAuthoring a number of articles focused on Front End Development and Full Stack Development topics including articles on Bootstrap, Front End JavaScript and Design Frameworks.
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Lynda.com/LinkedIn Courses
Lynda.com
See publicationProduce front end and full stack development courses for Lynda.com/LinkedIn including courses on Bootstrap, AngularJS, React, Sass, PostCSS, GulpJS, Grunt, NPM, Node & ExpressJS, D3 as well as a focus on JavaScript with courses on Functions, The DOM, Events, AJAX, JSON and more. Some of my courses have been translated to German and Japanese.
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English
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Spanish
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