There are over 209,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. alone according to a Peninsula Press analysis from 2015, and demand is quickly growing. There just aren’t enough people trained to take the gigs.

Bill Shelton knows why, in a very personal, first-hand sense. Though Shelton has a master’s in information systems, it wasn’t until he took part in the Hack Reactor programming bootcamp in San Francisco that he actually landed a job. It was the hands-on, immersive, real-world training that made all the difference — the kind training bootcamps excel at.

After starting his job as senior engineer at F5 Networks Shelton made another discovery — there aren’t enough backend engineers who know about cybersecurity. This leaves the very code base on many online companies vulnerable to attack. This, he thought, is a problem proper bootcamp training can solve.

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