Learn to follow King Jesus & Become a software engineer
The CloudCard Gap Year Program is designed to create excellent junior software developers who joyfully follow Lord Jesus in every area of their life. No one is perfect, but we believe Jesus is worthy of our “yes”. We are looking for individuals who want to follow Jesus whole heartedly.
Discipleship Curriculum
All participants will be required to read the entire Bible, serve at a local church, and join a small group during the gap year. These activities help shape our affections for God, and we believe a heart surrendered to Jesus is evidenced by living out the following values:
Worship. We aim for our work to first and foremost glorify God, who created us and gave us our abilities and resources.
Joy. We strive for all of our activities to create as much joy as possible for everyone involved.
Value. We believe that every human being is created in God's image and has great, inherent value. We aim to help others unleash their God-given value and to always create more value than we consume.
Discipleship. Growing as individuals and as a team is the lever by which we multiply our efforts to create joy, value, and love.
Love. Most importantly, Jesus loves us all: our students, employees, partners, and community. Jesus also loves the hurting, the exploited, the orphan, the widow, the lonely, and the lost. Profit for our company is the extent to which we are able to express Jesus' love to others.
The discipleship curriculum is successful if students look a little more like Jesus as they live out these values.
Receive Coaching From our Founder and Principal Engineer
Tony Erskine has been hacking out code since he was in third grade writing BASIC and Logo on his dad’s Commodore 64. He graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BS in Computer Science in 2000. Afterwards, he began his career in software development and consulting. He also taught computer science to high school students and served a tour as a paratrooper in the armed forces where he earned the Purple Heart and Army Commendation medals.
As an engineer and consultant, Tony has led numerous software projects and has provided direction and consultation for the adoption of agile development methodologies, continuous integration, TDD, BDD, DevOps automation, RESTful web services, and the Atlassian development tools.
Education Curriculum
The CloudCard Gap Year Program combines online training courses, in-person coaching, and real-world experience.
Phase One (~6 mos) - Complete our software development curriculum curated by our coaches from best-in-class educators and attend daily coaching sessions with a coach to make sure you are staying on track.
Phase Two (~6 mos) - Work on real-world, software projects and attend daily pairing sessions with a coach to ensure your success.
Investment Details
The total cost to participate in the CloudCard Gap Year Program is $10,000.
The student will be responsible for $5,000 of the total cost
A donor, who aligns with the CloudCard values, will contribute an additional $5,000
“ Interning at CloudCard showed me what it truly meant to be a software engineer and provided the resources and opportunities to become one myself. I can’t think of a better first internship.”
““When I first started out I was shocked to see how one of the senior developers would willingly take even an hour of their time to explain something to me. It was extremely satisfying to know that code I had written was being used in the real world!””
““Collaborating on a project and learning from other programmers was a great experience that I had while working here. It is more then I would get in a classroom setting.””