Pavan Katepalli

Instructional Lead, SEI

New York City

Pavan became a web developer after his girlfriend got blood clots in her leg, which prompted him to create a site called INRTracker.com with the goal to help her and millions of others who suffer better manage. He now works on the site with his girlfriend and, "it’s awesome." Since then, Pavan has worked as a developer for a leading ad tech company, Media Math. There, he played a key role in launching an internal Business Intelligence platform to automate operations, billing, work assignment and discrepancy analysis. He also hired, interviewed and on-boarded junior developers and started a monthly international Company Hack'n Tell. Pavan has created and taught his own curriculum for web development as an Adjunct Instructor for Barnard College. Pavan was incredibly proud of his students who were able to make games and use form validation, ajax and DOM manipulation after just a dozen or so 2-hour classes.This experience at Barnard inspired Pavan to come teach full-time with us at General Assembly.