Joshua Gates needed a change after 15 years of teaching high school. One bootcamp later, he’s a fintech director.
When Joshua Gates was a high school teacher in the 2010s, he developed his own grading software after he became frustrated with the program he’d been using.
“It got bought up by a conglomerate and was messed up, so I created my own replacement for it,” Gates told Technical.ly. By the time he decided to become a software developer full time, he was running that software as a service.
Gates, 47, now works from his home in Hockessin, Delaware, as a director of software engineering for the Wilmington fintech company Best Egg. It’s a position he’d worked toward since landing a job there in 2020, fresh out of the Zip Code Wilmington coding bootcamp.
