From Bartender to Ops Engineer: How One Boot Camp Graduate Bounced Back from the Pandemic to Land a Career in the Cloud

Read Matthew Caspento's Story

Tinkerer. Gamer. Jokester. Dreamer. These are just a few words to describe Matthew Caspento, a Biology major whose overwhelming desire to start somewhere new after college and satiate his artistic side led him to slinging artisanal cocktails in Charlotte. After a pandemic layoff compelled him to enroll in the Coding Boot Camp and after catching the eye of a hiring manager through 2U’s Career Services, Matthew has since added another descriptor to his eclectic roster of talents and interests: full-time cloud operations engineer.

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