Elite Faculty & Mentors
At Sky States, we reject passive learning. Our courses are designed and delivered live by industry leaders who have engineered the systems you are learning to master.
Dr. Aris Thorne
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Stanford University) | Former Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind
Dr. Thorne has spent over 15 years pioneering neural network architectures. At Google DeepMind, he led research teams developing core components of state-of-the-art LLMs. At Sky States, he leads our advanced AI weekend cohort, guiding senior developers into machine learning leadership roles.
Sarah Jenkins, CISSP
M.S. in Information Security (MIT) | Former Chief Information Security Officer at Stripe
Sarah is a distinguished security strategist with a focus on high-volume financial transactions. She has architected defense paradigms protecting billions in transaction value and serves on corporate governance boards. She teaches security risk architecture and threat simulation.
David Chen
B.S. in Computer Engineering (UC Berkeley) | Former Principal Cloud Architect at Netflix
David is an open-source contributor and high-availability infrastructure expert. Having designed cloud orchestration fabrics at Netflix during their rapid global scaling, he brings deep knowledge of container systems, serverless networks, and CI/CD automation to our senior students.
Live Interactive Weekend Labs
All training sessions are fully interactive, live, and led directly by our primary faculty. You will participate in live code walk-throughs, collaborative defense scenarios, and structural system design evaluations.
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