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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

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  • Vibe Code This, Gemini Deepmind and Oops I Coded an App

    This is a heck of a week with tons planned including the release of my new challenge series Vibe Code This. The first…

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  • Vibe Code This

    Keeping up with AI is almost impossible, and to stay on top, you need to be challenged to expand your skills. So I am…

    33 Comments
  • AI in Work: Learning Live

    We have an amazing day of learning planned. AI in Work: Learning Live is a free, full-day experience designed to help…

    8 Comments
  • 10in10 AI Challenge

    Ten minutes a day. Ten weekday challenges.

    49 Comments
  • It's PLAI time

    Since I've started teaching about Artificial Intelligence at LinkedIn and Stanford, I get a lot of questions about how…

  • The Ubiquitous 360

    I meet lots of people who wonder if AI will be a fad, like Web3 or other past technology bubbles. However, AI is…

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  • The Subtle Changes

    Many important changes go unnoticed, but they can be indicative of AI's future direction. Some of these don't seem…

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  • The Marketing Age

    Something funny happened on the way to AGIs. Although we are getting excellent assistance from the modern crop of AI…

    5 Comments
  • The AI Edit

    When AI does something you weren't expecting it sort of shocks you. I wasn't really expecting it to be good at a lot of…

    9 Comments
  • The 2024 Paradox

    We got a decade of activity in 2023 with Chat GPT exploding into the scene, becoming the fastest growing product in the…

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Experience

  • Stanford University Graphic

    Contract Instructor/Teacher

    Stanford University

    - Present 3 years

    United States

    At Stanford University, I teach a variety of technical topics focusing on Generative AI, Pro Prompting, GitHub and ChatGPT.

    - Teach Stanford Staff and custom instruction for different departments on how to use GitHub and AI tools to improve processes and outcomes.

    - Teaching courses at Stanford Extension including GitHub and Vibe Coding.

    - Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, and GitHub Copilot; curriculum includes hands‑on labs Git and Github Tools, CodeSpaces and VSCode.

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn

    14 years 8 months

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      Senior Staff Instructor

      LinkedIn

      - Present 14 years 8 months

      Deland, FL

      • Created over 125 courses focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Front End Development and Full Stack Design

      * More than 2.6 million learners with top performing courses on technology topics including 30 courses focusing on AI, with the company's most popular courses on GitHub as well as many other topics. https://go.raybo.org/learn

      • Delivered talks and workshops at minor and major conferences like GItHub Universe, Oreilly's Fluent and more in the US and Canada.

      • Led a…

      • Created over 125 courses focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Front End Development and Full Stack Design

      * More than 2.6 million learners with top performing courses on technology topics including 30 courses focusing on AI, with the company's most popular courses on GitHub as well as many other topics. https://go.raybo.org/learn

      • Delivered talks and workshops at minor and major conferences like GItHub Universe, Oreilly's Fluent and more in the US and Canada.

      • Led a team that worked with GitHub to add repositories to our technology courses, which now allow our learners to use thousands of GitHub courses using repositories and CodeSpaces.

      • Worked with GitHub to deliver specialized training to achieve official GitHub certification outcomes.

      • Created innovative courses types and strategies including live streams, feed to paywall, Codespaces based courses and more.

      • Social Media innovator and official LinkedIn Top Voice, exploring the use of tools like Newsletters, Streaming, Posts Live Streams and helping instructors maximize their presence in the feed to build a growing engaged audience.

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      Staff Author, Lynda.com

      LinkedIn

      - 11 months

      Deland, FL

      Created more than 50 courses as Full Stack Web Development/Design Teacher, Speaker, Workshop Trainer and Writer.

  • Entravision Communications Graphic

    Director of Multimedia

    Entravision Communications

    - 7 years 2 months

    • Created a network of radio and TV station sites for Hispanic Media in the East Coast.

    • Managed licensing agreements for live streaming of music from ASCAP, SESAC and BMI.

    • Created a social media platform to help build engagement in our different markets.

    • Oversaw a series of contests to build awareness and recognition of the brand in the different markets.

    • Managed a team of FTEs, Producers an Interns in our radio markets including: Boston, Philadelphia, Tampa,…

    • Created a network of radio and TV station sites for Hispanic Media in the East Coast.

    • Managed licensing agreements for live streaming of music from ASCAP, SESAC and BMI.

    • Created a social media platform to help build engagement in our different markets.

    • Oversaw a series of contests to build awareness and recognition of the brand in the different markets.

    • Managed a team of FTEs, Producers an Interns in our radio markets including: Boston, Philadelphia, Tampa, Washington DC, and Orlando.

  • Senior Interactive Designer

    Tribune Interactive/The Orlando Sentinel

    - 6 years 1 month

    Orlando, Florida, United States

    • Designed the flagship websites for the Orlando market, including OrlandoSentinel.com and elSentinel.com.

    • Created innovative games and interactive projects for the editorial team.

    • Led a team that built websites for newspaper clients such as The Florida Panthers, Central Florida YMCA, The City of Orlando and The Orlando Arena.

    • Worked in the news room with writers and producers to create interactive projects.

    • Won a Society for New Design award for one of my…

    • Designed the flagship websites for the Orlando market, including OrlandoSentinel.com and elSentinel.com.

    • Created innovative games and interactive projects for the editorial team.

    • Led a team that built websites for newspaper clients such as The Florida Panthers, Central Florida YMCA, The City of Orlando and The Orlando Arena.

    • Worked in the news room with writers and producers to create interactive projects.

    • Won a Society for New Design award for one of my interactive projects

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Net Magazine

    Writer

    Authoring 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

    Produce 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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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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