The school has been a regular feeder of entry-
level workers at several prominent Nashville
companies and startups — Ingram, HCA,
Eventbrite, Change Healthcare, Beachy, Aspire
Health and Dave Ramsey. As bigger companies
with large tech needs move to the area, such
as AllianceBernstein and EY, the demand for
graduates has grown, allowing the school to
expand and accept more applicants. This summer
the school will move into a larger building on Plus
Park Boulevard to make room for more students
and to add a data analytics program.
Wark, who dresses casually in sneakers and
shorts, laughed when asked how his outlook
for the program in 2012 stacks up with the
growth and demand the software school has
experienced during the past seven years.
“I had no vision that this would get as big as it
has gotten,” Wark said. “Seven years ago, we all
knew there was a shortage of tech talent. ... We
knew there would be a need, but whose crystal
ball was good enough to see what’s happened to
the growth of Nashville’s tech community?”
Jevon Thomas, a West Point graduate, was
working as a manager at an Amazon warehouse
in Columbia, South Carolina, when his wife told
him about a software school in Nashville that
had garnered positive online reviews. He was
unhappy in his current post, one he had taken
hastily after serving four years in the U.S. Army
and becoming a father. He had been interested in
software since he got his first computer at age 18
and increasingly considered it as a career path.
When Thomas, 32, was accepted at the Nashville
Software School in 2017, he and his family
moved to Nashville. Today, he is a designer and
front-end developer at Factor, a Nashville-based
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