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From the first training room to a studio for modern learning.

We've been in the room when people figure things out. That's what we build toward.

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The Beginning

Hands-on technical training from 2009.

The Turing Years

2,000+ developers trained at Turing School.

The Studio

Workshops, curriculum, and fractional leadership.

Real learning takes real time

You can't shortcut the moment when something clicks. We build experiences that give people the space and structure to actually get there — not just exposure to information.

✓ Depth over breadth ✓ Application over information

Context changes everything

The same material lands differently depending on who's in the room and what they're trying to do. We've taught developers, executives, bootcamp students, and government agencies — and learned something from every group.

✓ Tailored to real roles ✓ Grounded in practice

Open beats closed

The best curriculum gets better when more people can use it, improve it, and adapt it. That's why the studio publishes openly whenever it can — CommonMath is the clearest example of that bet.

✓ Open source curriculum ✓ Community-improvable
2009

The beginning

Jeff Casimir started Jumpstart Lab as a simple idea: companies needed better technical training, and the usual options — multi-day vendor courses, dry certification prep — weren't cutting it.

The early work was hands-on from the start. Clients included LivingSocial, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, startups, and development shops that needed their teams to actually build things, not just sit through slides. The curriculum was built around real projects and iterated fast.

That early period established the core belief that stuck: the best learning happens when you're doing something real, with someone who's done it before standing next to you.

2013

Turing School

In 2013, Jeff co-founded Turing School of Software & Design in Denver — a full-time, intensive program training people to become professional developers. Over the following decade, Turing grew into one of the most respected developer training programs in the country.

More than 2,000 people graduated. Many of them came in with no programming background. Most of them got jobs. Some of them now lead engineering teams.

Running Turing meant hiring and managing a full teaching staff, building curriculum across multiple programs, working with employer partners, and figuring out what it actually takes to change someone's career trajectory. It also meant learning a lot about what doesn't work — and building better systems because of it.

Now

The studio

After Turing, Jeff returned to Jumpstart Lab with a clearer picture of what the company could be — not just a training provider but a studio for modern learning. The tagline is accurate: workshops, open source curriculum, fractional engineering leadership, and products built to help people learn and work better.

The workshops are live and hands-on, focused on AI and how it's changing the way technical teams work. The leadership work puts Jeff directly inside companies that need experienced engineering leadership without the cost and commitment of a full-time executive. CommonMath is an open curriculum project for math education. And the studio keeps building.

All of it runs out of Colorado's Grand County — Grand Lake and Winter Park — which means there's usually snow on the mountains and a direct drive to the best skiing in the state when the work is done.

Jeff Casimir

I'm a builder and a teacher. I've spent my career at the intersection of those two things — building curriculum, building teams, building companies, and teaching people at every level to do the same.

I started Jumpstart Lab in 2009, co-founded Turing School in 2013, and spent the better part of a decade running it. I've hired and managed engineering teams, designed programs from scratch, coached new managers through their first hard conversations, and taught everyone from senior engineers to career changers to federal contractors.

The through-line in all of it is the same: I believe the best way to help people get better is to put real work in front of them, give them the right support, and get out of the way.

Now I do that through the studio — workshops, fractional leadership, and open source work. All of it from Colorado, where I live with my family in Grand County.

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Whether you're interested in a workshop, fractional leadership, or just want to know more about what we're building — reach out.

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