vets-who-code organization

Veteran-led 501(c)(3) providing free Software Engineering training to empower veterans and military spouses for tech careers.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/Vets-Who-Code

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Vets Who Code
We train veterans and military spouses to become software engineers. Free. No tuition, no income share, no debt.
Vets Who Code is a veteran-led 501(c)(3). Since 2014 we've trained 300+ veterans who have generated over $20M in collective earnings. Every instructor is a veteran, a working engineer, and one of our own alumni — the person teaching you has already walked the path from separation papers to a paid engineering job.
What we actually build
Our accelerator runs on The Hashflag Method, our curriculum methodology. Four mechanisms:

Market anchoring — every unit traces to verified labor-market demand (Lightcast job-posting data, not instructor preference). Content that stops appearing in postings gets cut.
The Hashflag Graph — the curriculum is a prerequisite knowledge graph, not a syllabus: v2.3, 304 nodes, 442 edges, 33 units, validated as a DAG. Nothing is taught before its prerequisites resolve, and there are no circular dependencies in the sequence.
Gradual Release of Responsibility — instructor models it, cohort builds it together, member ships it alone. Support is withdrawn on a schedule, so independence is engineered rather than hoped for.
Artifact evidence gates — members advance on shipped, working artifacts. Not seat time. Not attendance.

The path runs frontend → data layer → backend → AI, with DSA as a continuous thread. The AI track is core, not a survey week: RAG, agent architectures, production AI APIs, and Harness Engineering against local models (OpenCode + CodeGemma 2B) so members learn how AI systems are wired, evaluated, and governed in production.
Why your sponsorship matters
We charge nothing, so every cohort is funded by people who believe veterans belong in this industry. Sponsorship keeps the lights on for the things that make the training work:

Infrastructure our members build and deploy on
The AI tooling, API credits, and compute the AI track runs on
Curriculum engineering — maintaining the Hashflag Graph, rebuilding units as the market moves
Keeping tuition at zero for the next veteran in the queue

If our work has ever shown up in your codebase, your team, or your hiring pipeline, this is the most direct way to send it forward.
The only thing we ask of our members is that they help the veteran behind them. Sponsoring is how you do the same.

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