If you want to learn to program, you need to write (a lot of) code.

Our job is to make sure you're doing that with a smile on your face.

Our mission: make computer science accessible to every student on Earth.

Programming is magic. It's the ability to create things from pure imagination. We started CodeCombat to give learners the feeling of wizardly power at their fingertips by using typed code.

As it turns out, that enables them to learn faster too. WAY faster. It's like having a conversation instead of reading a manual. We want to bring that conversation to every school and to every student, because everyone should have the chance to learn the magic of programming.

Meet the CodeCombat team

We value open and respectful dialogue, where the best idea wins. Our decisions are grounded in customer research and our process is focused on delivering tangible results for them. Everyone is hands-on, from our CEO to our GitHub contributors, because we value growth and learning in our team.

Nick Winter
Cofounder, CEO
Valentin Briukhanov
Lead Game Designer
Claire Armstrong
Senior Operations Manager
Chelsea Johnson
VP, Operations
Bill Wang
General Manager, CodeCombat Greater China
Shan Liu
Inside Sales, Europe
Run Chen
Head of Operations, CodeCombat Greater China
Yuqiang Tong
Head of Innovation, CodeCombat Greater China
Zhiran Chen
Head of Curriculum, CodeCombat Greater China
Steven Adkins
Senior Account Executive
Charlotte Cheng
Director of Education
Brehan Maul
VP, Sales and Marketing
Saurabh Patel
Senior Software Engineer
Gabrielle Vanhoesen
Senior Customer Success Manager
Tom Zarosinski
Account Executive
Kerry Richmond
Senior Account Executive
Noah Williams
Customer Success Manager
Ádám Kecskés
Software Engineer
Michael Schmatz
Principal Engineer
Bobby Lockhart
Senior Game Designer
Julie Savona
Operations Manager
Angelica Telnik
Marketing Manager
Sonia Spindt
Senior Curriculum Developer
Cindy Bayley
Curriculum Developer
Valent Nathanael
Game Developer

Pavel Konstantinov
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Oleg Ulyanickiy
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...and our open-source community

Over 600 contributors have helped build CodeCombat, with more joining every week!

CodeCombat is acommunity project,with hundreds of players volunteering to create levels, contribute to our code to add features, fix bugs, playtest, and even translate the game into 50 languages so far. Employees, contributors and the site gain by sharing ideas and pooling effort, as does the open source community in general. The site is built on numerous open source projects, and we are open sourced to give back to the community and provide code-curious players a familiar project to explore and experiment with. Anyone can join the CodeCombat community! Check out ourcontribute pagefor more info.