Two AWS engineers who saw what schools weren't teaching — and decided to fix it.

Started tinkering with Linux as a teenager. Spent two years as a sysadmin — the kind of job where your phone buzzes at 3am because a server's down. Now at AWS building automation and AI tooling. Still gets a buzz watching someone's first terminal command actually work.

In their words

The look on a kid's face when they SSH into a real server for the first time — that's the whole reason we do this.

— Ismail

Software engineer turned cloud engineer at AWS. Works on data pipelines — the plumbing that turns raw data into something useful. Spent three months trying to teach his younger cousin how the internet works and realised nothing good existed for kids who wanted to go beyond Scratch.

In their words

We built the programme we wished existed when we were 13. It didn't. So we made it.

— Sami