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                    <h2>Meet Monte Thakkar</h2>
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                <p>Monte is a Software Engineer in San Francisco. He enjoys helping students & junior developers discover their passion for building creative mobile apps.</p>
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                <p>As a student at SF State, Monte attended over a couple dozen hackathons working with a <a href="https://github.com/Monte9?tab=repositories" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline">variety of technologies for mobile and web development</a> such as rails, express, swift, java, parse, firebase and mongoDB to name a few.
                    Working in a team setting also helped Monte to cultivate soft skills while developing a passion for communicating and implementing ideas from a technical standpoint.
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                <p>During his senior year in college, Monte started MobileSpace to <a href="../blog/Getting-ready-to-launch-MobileSpace" style="text-decoration: underline" target="_blank">help teach iOS development to students as the CS program at SF State lacked any such course.</a>
                    In doing so, Monte developed the course curriculum for MobileSpace building <a href="https://github.com/mobilespace?tab=repositories" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline">several begginer level iOS apps</a>, recorded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7XL46a5L85tcFR6Zf7ktBg/videos?flow=list&view=0&sort=p" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline">Youtube tutorials</a>, lead weekly meetup sessions to teach iOS concepts as well as helped members develop their portfolio projects.
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                <p>To learn more about MobileSpace, check out the MobileSpace Blog <a href="../blog" style="text-decoration: underline">here</a>. And if you are interested to join MobileSpace, please check the current application status <a href="../applications/on-demand" style="text-decoration: underline">here</a>.</p>
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                <p>Currently, Monte is working on several side projects with React, React Native, Slack bots and Raspberry Pi and is also experimenting with ReactVR and Etherium & Solidity (Blokchain tech).</p>
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                <p>Please feel free to reach out to Monte on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/montethakkar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/mthakkar_" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline">Twitter</a> or through <a href="mailto: manthan.thakkar@gmail.com" style="text-decoration: underline">Email</a>.</b></p>
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