Graduate of Wiregrass High School Joins RTS Labs as a Web Developer

RTS Labs, a Richmond, VA-based development company that specializes in custom software, data analytics, and Salesforce, has added Wiregrass High School graduate Sarah Abogabir to their development team. Abogabir creates web applications for clients in a wide range of industries, including insurance and cyber security. She’s also a graduate of Ironhack, Miami’s #1 student rated full curriculum Web development and UX/UI design bootcamp.

“Sarah is a fast learner and works really hard,” says RTS Labs CEO Jyot Singh, who founded the company in 2010. “We aim to achieve equality and diversity on our 48 member team, so the fact that she’s so talented made it easy to bring her on board - especially in a role that’s usually filled by men. Her training at Ironhack exposed her to a job opportunity that she didn’t know existed, and RTS as well as our clients are the beneficiaries of her skills.”

In 2015, Abogabir graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. degree in Psychology. She realized that she wanted to pursue coding as a career after taking an online bootcamp course. Seeking a comprehensive bootcamp experience, Abogabir temporarily relocated to Miami in 2016 to enroll in Ironhack’s eight week program. Upon completion, she set her sights on Richmond as an employment destination, and was soon hired by RTS Labs as a front end developer (she’s currently working in Ruby on Rails back end development).

“Because I was learning so much in such a short period of time at Ironhack, I had to persevere and push myself to become mentally stronger, but the end result was well worth the challenge,” says Abogabir, who in her spare time is creating a blog for female web developers about how to attain a healthy life/career balance. “The excellent developers at RTS taught me that the best way to master coding is just by doing. As you break your program and create more errors, you have to let them guide you because in the process, you’re figuring out something new and becoming a better developer.”