cfg_profiles.csv

Timestamp,Name,Role,Github username,LinkedIn profile,Twitter name,What did you do before CFG?,Why did you want to do CFG?,What's your favourite topic so far and why?,If you were to join/co-found a startup what would you want your main focus to be and why?,Give the urls of anything you've created since starting the course,What are your plans in the immediate future?
8/1/2013 4:13:21,Tom Close,Teaching staff,tomclose,http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomclose,,"I did my undergrad in Cambridge studying maths, after which I studied in the US for a year before starting my DPhil in Quantum Information Processing at Oxford. It was while I was in the US that I learnt about web programming and built my first web application - a simple site for keeping track of debts between friends. Over my time at Oxford I have tutored undergrad maths and given informal courses in web programming. I was also a member of the uni swimming team and MCR committee, both of which have given me plenty of opportunity to solve small problems using coding!","I'm interested in web programming because I want to start a web startup one day. One of the hardest thing about web programming is knowing where to start. I've mostly learnt through trial and error. I like to think that by sharing what I've found out so far, others will be able to learn far quicker.","Ruby (and sinatra). Ruby is a great language, is nice to program in and is very powerful. ","I'd be interested in contributing across the board, but am probably primarily a back-end developer.","http://code61.org/, http://code61-list-all-things.herokuapp.com/, http://sheltered-oasis-6836.herokuapp.com/","I'm going to be teaching part time (maths) in Oxford until Christmas. I'll use the rest of my time to develop the Oxford Code Lab - to provide coding courses to students over the course of their degrees - possibly also helping CodeFirst to set up similar things at other unis. I will probably also continue to work on the treasuring project (accountsy) that I've been working on the past few years, but might instead try to get some work experience in a startup."
8/1/2013 4:18:35,Nick Angeli,Teaching staff,nicangeli,nicangeli,nicangeli,"Recent graduate of the University of Southampton, where I studied Computer Science.",I've always wanted to teach,"Ruby and Sinatra, I knew no ruby before signing up to teach","Back end development, much easier than front end stuff ",,Launching my own startup with Entrepreneur First
8/1/2013 12:48:52,James Hennessey,Teaching staff,JWHennessey,http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-hennessey/1a/739/235,JWHennessey,I currently work as a freelance Android developer. Previously participated in EF2012 and studied Computer Science at UCL.,I've was working on a programming tutorials side project that uses a wiki-like interface. I thought being a TA on a programming course could give me some insight into what features would be needed. Other projects are taking up most of my time at the moment so this project is currently on hold. ,Git. I use a different version control system (SVN) so I've actually learnt a lot about how Git during the course.,Back-end developer. Back-end development is what I enjoy most and where I think the interesting challenges are.  ,https://www.umotif.com/,I'm working on a interactive children's story for Intel's Perceptual Computing Challenge this is due at the end of August. I'm also planning to build a service to order custom desks. These will be customised using a web interface then fabricated using CNC milling machines.   
8/1/2013 13:08:56,ruby childs,Teaching staff,rubychilds,ruby childs,rubychilds,"So I originate from a mathematics degree at Queen Mary, which I generally found very hectic as I acted as a course and year rep, marketing rep and student ambassador all whilst networking for a job and being members of the Entrepreneur society and Finance Society.

I then continued onto work in an Investment Bank where I was a High Yield analyst, which consisted of me analysing financial statements. Realising this wasn't what I wanted to do with my life, I became intrigued by technology and the new development of Silicon Roundabout (it was in very early stages at this time!) This led me onto starting to learn how to code such as very basic HTML. Realising I wanted to make things I did the task of handing in my notice, in pursuit of a Computer Science Masters.

Within my masters I became passionate about areas such as Robotics and Machine Learning and was able to work on an AI which can paint! Once this was completed I left for New York in search of becoming a better programmer at Hacker School. It is here, where I began to love programming and learn more intensely than I ever have done. Come Jan 2013, HS is finished and now I must find something to do, my main true love being entrepreneurism - I can now programme so why not build! ","I feel its great tO share one's knowledge as I realise how hard it can be to pick up programming and also being one of the only females can appear daunting, but is really not!",I love when they learn HTML/CSS As the build quickly and iterate even more quickly. But also really enjoy when they learn an actual language as this is the building blocks to most.,Probably a full-stack developer as I like to see it come together.,https://github.com/rubychilds/LAAS (Love As A Service - tbc),Continue onto EF and build a startup!
8/1/2013 13:16:41,Peter Inglesby,Teaching staff,inglesp,http://uk.linkedin.com/in/peteringlesby,@inglesp,"I studied mathematics (BA) and geography (MPhil) at university, where I played ultimate frisbee and cricket, badly.

Since then I've developed software on a tiny island in the South Pacific, in rural South Africa, and most recently, as a freelancer, from a pokey shed at the bottom of my garden in Hertfordshire.","I really enjoy teaching, and helping people understand things.","Sinatra's great.  It's a simple, yet powerful, way to produce interesting dynamic websites, and I've been really impressed by some of the sites that the class have created with it.","I'm a developer, but I like thinking about all the issues that face a young business.",,"I've got a contract with a telecoms company for the next few months, and I'm teaching another programming course in Cambridge in December."
8/1/2013 18:01:48,Alex,Student,everhooder,http://uk.linkedin.com/in/aenikolova,everhooder,"Education: 
studied Economics and Business; Law and Marketing.

Work: 
+ Website editor in a travel agency (2 y 6 m)
+ Marketing manager and later VP Marketing at XS Software JSCo. - online gaming company (3 y 6 m)
+ Co-founder of Eventyard.net (2 y)

Projects: 
Startup e-Bulgaria - project to help students in Bulgaria to know more about e-skills and develop their e-skills; I was 2nd laureate at EU Commission Digital Europe's Project Passion competition.
",I wanted to improve my hard skills and understand better the programming languages; and to be able to use them.,"HTML & CSS (a bit easier to comprehend) :-)
Git, Ruby, Sinatra - challenging and interesting; still processing!",Marketing and Business development - this is what I have been doing for many years. But every marketer and biz guy should understand a bit of programming in order to be able to track and evaluate the work done. ,"I have a bit more work to do on my first_site, but before that I have several CSS tutorials to cover (want to try my own without twitter bootstrap) :)
http://sofiashared.com/","I am moving to Lisbon right after the programme is finished, because my startup got accepted in ""Lisbon Challenge"" accelerator and we need to be there for 2-3 months.
I would like to take my startup to the next level - focus on clients and marketing with the right tracking and do some additional tools to support my campaigns with my new CFG skills! :)"
8/1/2013 18:06:34,Grace,Student,copplestone,uk.linkedin.com/pub/grace-copplestone/20/a60/b50/,,I'm from Bristol and I'm studying manufacturing engineering at Cambridge. ,I would like to have a startup or join one in a technical role.,Ruby,Back-end and business development.,"http://fathomless-oasis-9921.herokuapp.com, www.bumpabag.co.uk",I've got another year at Cambridge then who knows what...
8/1/2013 18:07:06,Natalie,Student,nataliejpg,,,"Physics at Oxford
Lots of Hockey
",I like coding. Start ups seem cool but more as a result of code first than a reason for doing it.,ruby and sinatra,"back-end or front end, probably back end though","http://nataliejpg.github.io/landing_page/, http://stormy-crag-1959.herokuapp.com/, http://nataliejpg.github.io/first_site/","go back to uni, do another coding course in my holidays, learn other languages, find out about coding in lab environments but also learn more about start ups and get some experience in them"
8/1/2013 18:08:05,Mathilde,Student,CoHoop,fr.linkedin.com/pub/mathilde-leo/4b/4b8/a42,Mathilde_Leo,"French born, studied at Sciences Po Paris, UPenn and lately LSE, where I completed a Master's in Management. I've started an ed-tech company allowing students to collaborate during lectures and I'm now doing product marketing, biz-dev and UX as Adbrain.","Always wanted to program, to build my own projects and understand my tech team.","HTML/CSS because it's simple and results are tangible ;-)
Git because it allows you to collaborate with other developers (and I finally know what my dev friends meant when they shouted ""have you puuuushed?"")",Education.,"http://intense-basin-4936.herokuapp.com/, http://esmeraldabyberi.github.io/X-Files/index.html",Start up my ed-tech company as part of EF 2013!
8/1/2013 18:10:09,Camilla,Student,allimac,uk.linkedin.com/in/camillacolomboserri‎,,Media Design / UXD / Digital Anthropology,"I'd like to start a start-up sometimes in the future, change the world and bring peace.",Git and Ruby!,UXD / Front-end / (maybe) Back-end,"www.superflua.info
polar-savannah-9832.herokuapp.com",I'll finish up my dissertation. Only then I will be able to really use my brain again and think about my life.
8/1/2013 18:23:42,Sophie Dundovic,Student,sophiedundovic,Sophie Dundovic,,"I graduated from Cambridge University in June 2013, having studied Maths and Anthropology. I am now working as a risk advisory intern at Ernst and Young in London. ","I wanted to develop my tech skills and be able to create my own websites, to enable me to work on my own projects. I am interested in tech start ups because they offer the potential for large scale change. ","I have particularly enjoyed learning ruby, because it is such an intuitive language to code in. ","At present, I would focus on business development, but, after more coding experience this could change!","www.sponantics.com 
",I will be moving to Germany in the Autumn to study at Heidelberg University. 
8/1/2013 18:26:03,Jutta Frieden,Student,jutta-frieden,,ju_shine,"Hi, I am Jutta, I studied Pure Mathematics in Munich, Singapore and at Imperial College London. While studying in Munich, I also took part in an additional study programme for Technology Management, whose focus is a lot about innovative startup ideas. After graduating last October, I started work for the Siemens Technology Accelerator in Munich. This April I moved back to London in order to work for an online education startup called Maths Doctor. I am doing product management with them and get to closely work together with our development team.",I have always been eager to learn to code but most of the time it has not been the right point in time. When I learned about CFG I decided that now is. I am working in a digital startup and want to found my own one soon.,Ruby - I like that it is all about logic and it feels good to be very close to mathematics.,"I would love to be a developer, rather back-end than front-end, but being fair I think I should rather do bus dev ;)","http://juttafrieden.com/
http://nataliejpg.github.io/landing_page/
http://stark-ocean-6173.herokuapp.com/","I will continue working for Maths Doctor, and potentially sign up for hacker school in NYC ;)"
8/1/2013 18:26:33,Pooja Thakrar,Student,poojathakrar,http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=181762688&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile,@mybluetasks,"Politics @ LSE - Debating Society; Lacrosse
Rocket Internet, Malaysia
Morgan Stanley, London
Co-Founder - mybluetasks.com","After launching a start up a few months ago (mybluetasks), I wanted to learn how to code so I could understand my code, and communicate better with the developers. ",HTML/CSS - because I like seeing instant results (and it's simple!),already have Co-Founded. Main focus is Marketing + Biz Dev,www.pthak.co.uk,Continue with my start up and hopefully code something on the site!
8/1/2013 18:27:50,Chloe Donegan,Student,csharpd,http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=67273963&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile_pic,,"
University of Edinburgh : Philosophy
PADI SCUBA Instructor
President of EUTIC
Morgan Stanley : Equity Analyst
Farm Drop - Biz Dev
Flavrbox- Head of Operations
Avocarrot - Sales",I want to understand the relative complexity of technical projects,I like sinatra,"Business Dev, Marketing, Front-end","www.chezjustin.com
http://intense-sands-8477.herokuapp.com/",Entrepreneur First
8/1/2013 18:28:59,Esmeralda Byberi,Student,EsmeraldaByberi,Esmeralda Byberi,,"Currently following a MSc in Management, Organisations and Governance. I have finished my bachelor degree with a major in Economics and minor in Law in Utrecht University in The Netherlands. 
I have previously worked for Nike , European Headquarters and as a student assistant for Utrecht University of Economics. 

","Since I want to start my own business and the future seems to be 'tech startups' , I decided that I need to know how to create smth myself or at least understand the background mechanisms of the tech startups.",CSS  and google analytics are the ones that get me going - since its a lot about design and preferences which have always been part of my interests.,Designer and business development ,http://esmeraldabyberi.github.io/X-Files/index.html,I still need to decide : major - graduate and decide what I want to do with my life :/
8/1/2013 18:29:18,Nadia Odunayo,Student,NadiDami,http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nadia-odunayo/51/676/938,@nodunayo,"Studied PPE at Oxford. During University, I did some debating, was part of the JCR Committee, sprinted for the athletics club, took part in Access initiatives, and set up a creative writing publication.","When I start up my own company, I won't be totally removed from the tech side.",Command Line - interesting controlling the computer from Terminal.,Front-end/Back-end developer - would be keen to put what I've learnt over 5 months in practice.,"www.nadidami.info
http://radiant-bastion-2990.herokuapp.com/",Take up my Makers Academy scholarship and continue coding!
8/1/2013 18:30:40,Louise,Student,lmewett91664,Louise Mewett,@LouiseMewett,"Warwick graduate - Economics Bsc.
Interned for 5 summers at UBS but have now decided I don't want to be behind a desk every day! 


","Want to be more tech savvy, learn how and why things work online.
Be able to communicated with programmers.
Understand the capabilities of programmers, whats difficult/easy.
Test myself! 
Enter the start-up world
Be useful to the start-up that I'm interning in.
Want to be my own boss one day and think that an understanding of websites/apps is vital to a cheap/quick start up.","HTML - fundamental, the basics of everything, easy to understand, formulaic. ","Sales, hustler, business development/strategy. ",,"work in one or two other start-ups, to learn as much as possible about different industries/the problems that start ups come up against."
8/1/2013 18:31:09,Gwen,Student,gwenpryor,http://www.linkedin.com/in/gpryor,,I studied at London School of Economics and wrote Television shows. ,"I build prototypes, understand developers, and make a larger contribution to my startup",Ruby and git ,"Front-end developer, BD, marketing, finance, and anything else.",maddienowse.github.io/first_site/index.html,I have one more year at LSE. 
8/1/2013 18:31:33,Yazminca Woodward,Student,YazWoodward,Yazminca Woodward,,"Geography at Oxford
Currently doing a brand strategist internship at Happen UK ",I'm interested in startups and I'm also doing my dissertation on digital geographies ,HTML/CSS ,Marketing or Business Development ,"first_site, sinatra_project_1, landing_page",I'm going back to university to complete my final year 
8/1/2013 18:31:55,Sally Poundall,Student,sallypoundall,,,"I'm an undergraduate at Cambridge, I've done 3 years and have 1 year left to do. I studied French & Italian for two years and then switched to do linguistics for two years. At uni I'm part of the DanceSport team (competitive ballroom & Latin dancing, think Strictly Come Dancing!) which is really fun :)","I've dabbled a bit in building websites and always felt I was limited in what I could create due to my lack of coding skills. So I joined CFG so that I would be able to create websites exactly how I want, and also to make more professional looking sites.",html/css as it's quite simple yet produces great results. I also like the fact it's quite creative.,"Front-end development because I can happily spend hours and hours trying to make a webpage look nice without getting bored, haha.","www.sallypoundall.co.uk (this is really rubbish);
http://enigmatic-lowlands-5999.herokuapp.com;
http://ldavies3004.github.io/landingpage/landingpage.html","Go back to uni for a year, use my skills to build some websites. Afterwards uni I'll probably want to build on what I've learnt at CFG, so I'll probably do some further study so that I'll get really good at all this stuff."
8/1/2013 18:32:46,Miranda Hadfield,Student,MCH12,http://www.linkedin.com/pub/miranda-hadfield/38/5b6/b65,mchadfield,"Graduated from Oxford in 2011 with a modern languages degree, then worked for Rocket Internet in Malaysia, Berlin and London for their ecommerce start-ups (lazada, HelloFresh and Payleven). Now part of EF2013 cohort.",I have worked with developers and need to understand more about how they work. I am also starting my own business so want ot be able to contribute to coding parts of the MVP.,Ruby - first time to use a backend programming language and see how its structured,"business development because that is what I am good at, but would like to do more UX and front-end design as well as backend if I were capable.",MCH12 github profile shows it ,"EF2013, finish my internship at DN Capital (Early-stage tech VC)"
8/1/2013 18:33:49,Jade Read,Student,jaderead,Jade Read,@jaderead5,"I graduated from the University of Bristol about a month ago, where I studied Biology. Before that I was a self-employed social media consultant. I am currently working at a startup called SuperAwesome, a discovery platform for kids, before starting Entrepreneur First in September!",I wanted to do CFG because I think it's ridiculous how male-dominated tech is. We need more women in tech and I want to be one of them.,Front end stuff. I think it's going to be most useful and relevant for my time at EF and beyond. ,"I would take the hustler biz dev type role. I think it suits my experience and skills best. That's not saying I don't want to be involved in the hardcore tech stuff, but it wouldn't be my main focus. ",www.jaderead.info,Entrepreneur First
8/1/2013 18:35:06,Madeleine Nosworthy,Teaching staff,MaddieNosw,Madeleine Nosworthy,@MNosworthy,"Read Russian and German at University of Bath
Wine Tasting Society
Russian society

Work at Entrepreneur First","To understand what web development was about;
To build a kick-ass website for our family vineyard.
",Everything but analytics.,"Marketing, PR, front-end, biz dev...",http://maddienosw.github.io/first_site/index.html,Find a job in a start-up in the Silicon Valley
8/1/2013 18:47:38,Elina Desaine,Student,desaine3,http://uk.linkedin.com/in/elinadesaine,@ticklo_App,"Before CFG I was a second year student at the University of Exeter studying IT Management for Business, this involved some programming and computer science. Furthermore, I was Social Secretary for the Badminton Society. Work wise, I was a self-employed alcohols sales rep in several clubs in Exeter. In addition, during the summer I am a youth mentor with the National Citizen Service, with whom I have been involved with 5 years running. 

Furthermore, during February my self and my team competed in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition, end result we came first in the UK in our category (World Citizenship) and came second overall in the UK. Leading on from this we carried on creating a start up business JEMS Technology Ltd, with our product Ticklo (www.ticklo.com) Which is undergoing production at the moment. ","Recently after doing the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition, my interests have changed from Technology consultancy towards the start-up environment. It made me realise how big of an industry it is and could evolve into. Because of this, I have been really interested in start ups and seeing the changes they undergo in the short and long term. I think the reason I prefer start up to Technological consultancy is because of the exciting, creating, unpredictable and fast paste industry it is in. Hence CFG was perfect for me, allowed me to learn more about coding whilst helping my team to develop our Ticklo product and as well as at the same time get support and advice on different start ups. ","My favourite topic so far has been Git, because this is something completely new, and because I heard my team talk about it when I had no idea what it was.  No I am very capable at using it fully and understand the huge benefits it has to group projects. ",I would like my main focus to be on Business development but also be able to chip in with some of the back-end development and front-end development. To understand any business fully you need to understand the product and how it is developed and the USP of its development. ,"esmeraldabyberi.github.io/X-Files
http://sophiedundovic.github.io/group_cheatsheet/
http://desaine3.github.io/learning_html/
http://desaine3.github.io/first_site/
http://desaine3.github.io/html3/","I have my third year at Exeter University to finish, at the same time I have three committees to run (Baltic Society, Computer Science Society and Expedition Society). On top of that I have my start up company to work with and help it grow in the early stages, get customers and gain many network links for it. 

After University, I either want to carry on working for my start up if that is financially viable, if not then start working with a different start up ( maybe a summer internship). Also, I am quite keen to apply to Entrepreneur First after University, sounds like a really great program! "
8/1/2013 18:47:41,Emma,Student,emmahigham,http://www.linkedin.com/pub/emma-higham/3a/379/994,@emma_higham,"At Uni, I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford. My interest in Technology only came in to play after I left and dived in to the Berlin startup scene as one of the founding members of Zalando.co.uk. I was amazed by how much even a knowledge of simple excel formulas could achieve!","My insights into the Berlin startup scene motivated me to pick up the skills I would need to start up my own venture. CFG was a perfect fit, because it enabled me to get a broad enough introduction in to the world of programming that I felt much better equipped to talk to Product Managers and Engineers, both of whom I realised were crucial to life in a tech-startup. The practical nature of CFG also means that within a couple of weeks I was equipped to build apps and websites off my own back!",HTML/CSS excite me because of the design elements. ,"Marketing and Business Development: While I want to empower myself to have discussions with developers, my core strengths are on the business side. ",http://ldavies3004.github.io/landingpage/landingpage_bill.html,Continuing to work in my current role as an Industry Analyst at Google; meanwhile I hope to build on these coding skills and explore further ideas for startups.