Meet Your Instructors

We have a great group of instructors for each of the courses of the Nanodegree program. Each of them brings expertise from working in the field and experience teaching others. Below is a short bio of each instructor, and you'll learn more about them during the courses they teach.

Course 1 - Java Fundamentals

Jeff Phillips

Senior Software Engineer

Jeff Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer with more than 20 years of software development experience. Jeff has worked on embedded avionics flight controls systems for both Honeywell and Boeing. Afterwards Jeff moved over into Java Cloud based SAAS applications. He has earned both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University.

Course 2 - Advanced Java Programming Techniques

Dustin Hellstern

Software Engineer

Dustin Hellstern is a software engineer with 15 years of Java experience, including over 7 years designing and building large-scale systems for one of the top companies in the tech industry. He is excited to bring you this course on advanced Java programming.

Course 3 - Java Application Deployment

Alex Pritchard

Senior Software Engineer

Alex is a Senior Software Engineer for CPA Global. He is excited to combine his background as a music educator with more than a decade of enterprise Java experience to help create this hands-on course about testing and deploying Java applications.