Volunteer with us
Welcome to our Volunteering program. In SHA, we’re looking for talented people to join our team for at least 3 months.
Meet our volunteers!
Dionyshs Tsoumas
Database Teacher
Bliss Perry
Full Stack Instructor & Workshop Designer
Aspasia Gkotsi
Career Counselors / Main Soft Skill Trainer
Aristeidis Bampakos
JavaScript Teacher
Paulin de Naurois
Full-Stack Developer
Areti Vassou
Mission Ambassador
Dionyshs Tsoumas
Database teacher
I’m an agile enthusiast, trying to always build things that create value to the end user, optimising the resources at hand. I’ve a passion for designing scalable systems and managing co-located or distributed dev teams to achieve great outcomes.
Currently I am a backend engineer in Transifex, mainly designing and building software that is being used by thousands of users every day.
Aspasia Gkotsi
Career Counselors/Main Soft Skill Trainer
Aspasia has graduated from the Department of Management Science and Technology and she is an IT Recruitment Consultant since then. She is a passionate volunteer who has been part of many organizations. She loves helping people grow and reach their potential. Since a little girl, she liked to live her values, smile and dance around the people she loves the most! Her motto: “Only the one who is fighting the darkness inside him, will have a chance in the sun tomorrow”.
Paulin de Naurois
Full-Stack Developer
Paulin is a senior Full-Stack developer working remotely for France. He used to give volunteer code classes back in Paris so after arriving in Athens he joined Social Hackers Academy straight away to continue teaching.
Bliss Perry
Full Stack Instructor & Workshop Designer
Bliss is currently a double major candidate in computer science and classical literature at Harvard University (’21). After designing and leading coding bootcamps for college students in the USA, he was inspired to contribute his love of teaching to the mission of SHA while studying in Athens. He looks forward to teaching his impressive and dedicated students remotely and to expanding SHA’s curricular offerings to include algorithms, cloud computing, and general entrepreneurship skills.
Aristeidis Bampakos
Javascript teacher
I started my career as a .NET Developer in various small-medium sized companies and in the last 4 years I have been mainly focused in Web development using Javascript, HTML and CSS, specializing in Angular framework. I am currently working as a Front End Web developer at Plexscape (https://plexearth.com/), and I am also a freelance contributor at UrboTour (www.urbotour.com/en/about-us-menu) online platform. As an active member in the open source community at various Github projects, I enjoy helping other people solve their problems. In my free time, I maintain a little farm of chickens and I am trying to improve my combat skills playing Assassins Creed!
Areti Vassou
Mission Ambassador
Areti is an awarded Digital Marketing & Strategy Architect and a proficient Digital Copywriter. She has a passion for communication, business storytelling and brand building. She combines academic excellence in Web Design and a rich professional background in Social Media Marketing, in Digital Healthcare Industry and Digital Technology, in Europe, USA and Greece.
She is active in Digital Marketing Field since 2000, starting from Google. As the Digital Strategy Director of Grafimedia.eu and Ideadeco.co, she travels all over the planet for a variety of marketing projects. She loves books, cats, music and good food.
Her motto is: Everything is Doable!
Volunteer Testimonials
Teaching full-stack development at SHA during the past few months has been a truly gratifying experience. What’s inspiring me the most is witnessing people from different social and economic statuses growing more confident in themselves by building technical skills, collaborating in projects, embracing peer to peer learning, and ultimately adopting a professional mindset that will be key to their future careers. I find SHA’s vision of giving vulnerable people the opportunity to participate in a remarkable community of staff, volunteers and students and ultimately obtaining the skills necessary to be absorbed by the software job market to be empowering and impactful to our society. Feel honoured to be part of it.
Being a volunteer in SHA changed my life and career. I grew as a professional with the help of mentors that showed me how to be a better marketer. And then, I became a full-time employee in the best team and environment to work in.
Teaching at SHA was my first ever experience as a teacher. The course taught was Basic Computer Skills. Due to the nature of the Course, the tasks were simple, but that didn’t keep the students from growing and ultimately achieving a greater goal. By the end of the course, many students had secured jobs with resumes they created themselves. Observing those people gain lost confidence and finding new hope was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I’m excited for my future with SHA and confident in our ability to contribute to society in such an impactful way.
