Trevor McLeod & Brian Falk

Teaches at General Assembly

Trevor McLeod graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Nanomaterials. During college he was awarded two Presidential Research Awards for his work developing novel solar-cell technology. He also worked with various programming languages such as Java and C++, predominantly for computational mathematics. After college he worked as a Product Manager developing large-scale commercial solar products in Silicon Valley. In 2011, he joined the NYC startup community and since then has been passionately focused on learning JavaScript and Node.js. --- Brian Falk studied Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. During this time he developed a passion for UNIX, which led him to pick up languages such as C and Perl. After graduating, he moved to NYC and received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. Since then he has built applications for people in Academia and Finance, focusing on web applications built with Java and Ruby. In 2012, he left his job in finance to join the vibrant startup community in New York and in the process added Node.js to his toolkit.