Let your code do the talking!

Program

The GEEKSKOOL program is a 3 month, full time, intensive, coding and training program held in Bangalore. The program is for those who want to make the most of a career in startups.

Skills

Students get to choose the language of their choice. Geekskool unleashes the good programmer in them and prepares them for the demanding environment of startups.

Project Based

The program is project based. Participants are encouraged to create open source projects in their areas of interest.

Free!

Yes! The program is free for all participants! We make money from our sponsors, and from companies that hire our students.

Students

Our students are highly self motivated, determined to be best of breed, with high levels of social skills to work well in teams.

Experts

Our expert trainers have more than ten years of experience in the software industry. Have contributed to and are involved in the open source software community.

Who can apply?

Programmers who want to become better programmers

Programmers out of touch for a while, and want to get back into programming

Professionals who want to make a career change to programming

Corporate programmers who want to change over to startups

Sponsors

Frequently Asked Questions

What is required of the students?

Students must reside in Bangalore and must attend GEEKSKOOL full time. Must carry their own laptops.

I am not a college graduate. Can I apply?

Sure you can. If you know a programming language and can demonstrate your passion for it, please apply!

When does the next batch start?

We have a rolling admissions policy. Once you are selected, you have to join immediately, and the course duration is 12 weeks from the date you join.

Founders

Santosh Rajan

With over 32 years of programming expertise, he founded GEEKSKOOL after experiencing the lack of trained programmers with industry ready skills.

Kiran Jonnalagadda

Founder,Hasgeek

What are Geekskoolers doing now?

Check the github link below to find what our students are doing

Github

Alumni

Karthik

Karthik is one half of the team that wrote the JSON parser from ground up in Swift. He is a food and fitness freak.

Keshav

Keshav is our resident DJ who also plays at popular clubs in Bangalore. He has written his own HTTP server in Python.

Ankit

Apple fanboy & dosa lover, Ankit has two iOS apps out. He's the other half of the team that wrote the JSON parser.

Akshay

Akshay is Javascripter who likes nature, open learning and living.

Ramshreyas

Ramshreyas is a Clojure programmer and his past work is listed on IMDb. He quit the glamorous world of the film industry for software engineering.

Jaison

Jaison is an ex-Android "dude" who changed his mind when he saw the beauty of Swift. Don't call him JSON.

Archana

A former research scholar from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, who believes programming is an art and wants to become a computer polyglot.

Arun Krishnan

An Ice cream lover! Arunkrishnan quit a sysadmin job to take the plunge into the world of programming. He began working on Python and hasn't looked back since.

Mansi

Loves playing board games. Also gave a talk at JSFoo 2015 on "Brewing JavaScript: Compile your own domain-specific language to JavaScript".

Revanth

A Football fan. Loves trekking. Worked at Teach for India for 2 years. Become a Ruby monk at Geekskool.

Sai Charan

Youngest Geekskooler! A Designer, a movie buff, football and a cricket fan, loves doing stuff on the front-end.

Varun Sharma

A cricketer and a musician, Varun is passionate about Backend and has written a Server in JavaScript.

Unni Krishnan

A Python enthusiast! A movie buff and also a foodie! Unni loves road trips on his Yamaha R3!

Mentors

Leena

Head of Engineering @ Multunus.

Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan

A programmer with experience in low level system software. He also plays with Functional Programming languages in his free time.

Jon Maim

Building products at Minsh.

Hemanth HM

A computer polyglot CLI, web and unix philosophy lover.

Sunil Pai

Software Architect at Myntra.

Dhaval Trivedi

CompSci enthusiast. Web Development Engineer at Amazon.

Tejas Dinkar

Director of Engineering at Quintype. Ruby and clojure hacker.

Anand B Pillai

Founder, The Bangalore Python User Group (BangPypers). President Python Software Society of India.

Sreekanth Vadagiri

Software engineer interested in - building large scale applications, Programming languages, and Distributed systems.

Nemo

Hacker, Developer, Writer. Codes at Razorpay.

Steven Deobald

Developer at Nilenso.

Abhinav

Developer at Nilenso.