Jerome Hardaway is an Air Force veteran and Google Developer Expert who works both sides of the hiring table. In industry, he is an engineering manager whose career spans big tech, ed tech, private equity tech, and the public sector — Microsoft, McGraw Hill, Vista Equity Partners, and Accenture Federal Services, supporting USPS and the U.S. Department of Education. In the community, he is the Geek At Arms (Executive Director & Founder) of Vets Who Code, a veteran-led 501(c)(3) that since 2014 has trained 300+ veterans and military spouses into software engineers, with $20M+ in collective alumni earnings, 100% remote and free to the troops. A GitHub Star alum and LinkedIn Learning instructor, his work has earned White House workforce development recognition and been featured in Wired, Business Insider, and the Stack Overflow Blog. He builds teams by day and builds engineers for them by night, so he teaches the job search the way hiring managers actually read it — as an engineering problem. Gather the data, build the artifacts, ship, and measure, using AI to sharpen what you already have, never to invent what you don’t.