Python Instructor Bios

headshot of instructor, Ibrahim Alkeilani

Ibrahim Alkeilani is a data science engineer with a master's degree in electrical engineering and a versatile professional background in engineering and technical applications. He has experience working with several companies over 15 years, most recently for Ushr, a geospatial measurement and software company for advanced driver assistance, as a back-end engineer helping to develop the structure of the company's map development software application. Alkeilani has an extensive portfolio of technical skills, including data crunching, manipulation and cleaning; preprocessing and validation; and exploratory data analysis.

 

Alayna Myrick headshot

Alayna C. Myrick is a data insights scientist at Verana Health and a seasoned instructor. She has experience as a project manager, instructor, consultant and data scientist, and is a certified Tableau Desktop specialist. Myrick began coaching and instructing courses in 2016 and has since been a supplemental instructor for courses in economics, mathematics, data visualization, project management and computer science at her alma mater, University of the Pacific. She is an expert in data science, healthcare analytics, statistics and data visualization. Read more about Alayna C. Myrick.

 

headshot of Python instructor Al Pangelinan

Al Pangelinan is an independent verification and validation (IV&V) specialist at Public Consulting Group and is an adjunct professor at Sierra College. He has been in the IT industry for over 25 years and has experience with IV&V, project management, quality assurance, independent project oversight, enterprise software development and web application development. Pangelinan has been involved in major projects including the Intel Web Invoice Project, the Office of Systems Integration MEDS Modernization Planning Project, SIMM 19 and Project Approval Lifecycle as a project manager. He also developed the Agile Software Development framework and created the nonprofit Think Gig Inc. Read more about Al Pangelinan.