In 2012, Makers founders Evgeny Shadchnev and Rob Johnson met at Forward Labs and got talking about the problems people have learning to code.
Evgeny had trained as a software developer at Imperial College and as he was trying to build out his team he discovered a lack of qualified developers on the market. Rob had been through the an arduous process of teaching himself to program through a book on Objective C.
The vision they had was for Makers Academy to be an alternative to university and a vocational route into a job as a software developer.
In 2013 they founded Makers, becoming Europes first coding bootcamp and for the last 10 years, the organisation has been turning their ambition for an alternative route into tech, into reality.
In 2018, Makers began offering apprenticeships revolutionising their delivery and becoming the first organisation to deliver front-loaded programmes where all training is delivered upfront in a 16 week bootcamp style.
In 2023 Makers expanded their course offering and now deliver courses in Software Development, DevOps, Clooud and Data Engineering.
Makers has trained over 3000 career changers and places them in tech roles at over 300 organisations.