Avi Flombaum
Coder, Builder, Teacher, Musician
Life is a wonderful adventure. Experience everything.
Shalom and Welcome!
I'm a programmer from NYC that has been obsessed with the internet and new media since 1994. I dropped out of college at 20 to work at a hedge fund and a few years later started my first company, Designer Pages.
Around 2010 I started teaching people how to code, mentoring them, and connecting them with jobs and that snowballed into founding Flatiron School as the Dean and Chief Product Officer. Just about 10 years later, Flatiron School has helped over 10,000 people transition their career into code. In October 2021, I joined Revature as the Chief Product Officer where I work on training platform, strategy, and pedagogy.
You can learn more about my career and work history on my Worklog.
I'm excited about college alternatives, real-time interactive media, personal coaching and automated accountability, Bitcoin. I would love to hear about what gets you going.
I'm legit, I've been in all these publications (and more)!
Featured Writing
Career
Why I Joined Revature
Written August 05, 2021 | About a 5 min read
What I love most about Revature is that, like Buster Douglas, we know our why. We believe that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. So we have made it our mission to unlock the world of coding for anyone with enough apti...
Career
Graduating Flatiron School
Written June 30, 2021 | About a 3 min read
Monday, June 8th, 2020, was Flatiron School’s eighth birthday. Starting Flatiron School with Adam has without a doubt been the most rewarding, challenging, and exciting endeavor of my life so far. With a heart full of love, I will be lea...
Code
Why I Teach Ruby
Written June 20, 2018 | About a 11 min read
During my career as a programmer I have worked primarily in ASP, Javascript, PHP, C#, and Ruby with a sprinkling of many other languages including Java. As a teacher, I’ve taught Web Development with Ruby on Rails and Javascript for over...
Life
Perfect Poetry
Written May 04, 2021 | About a 5 min read
At the turn of the 21st century, 2000, I discovered my love for poetry. I was enrolled in Ramaz Upper School, in 10th grade, and turning sixteen. I explored the universe with Walt Whitman and his Learned Astronomer. William Carlos Willia...
Why I Joined Revature
What I love most about Revature is that, like Buster Douglas, we know our why. We believe that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. So we have made it our mission to unlock the world of coding for anyone with enough apti...
Graduating Flatiron School
Monday, June 8th, 2020, was Flatiron School’s eighth birthday. Starting Flatiron School with Adam has without a doubt been the most rewarding, challenging, and exciting endeavor of my life so far. With a heart full of love, I will be lea...
Why I Teach Ruby
During my career as a programmer I have worked primarily in ASP, Javascript, PHP, C#, and Ruby with a sprinkling of many other languages including Java. As a teacher, I’ve taught Web Development with Ruby on Rails and Javascript for over...
Perfect Poetry
At the turn of the 21st century, 2000, I discovered my love for poetry. I was enrolled in Ramaz Upper School, in 10th grade, and turning sixteen. I explored the universe with Walt Whitman and his Learned Astronomer. William Carlos Willia...