Calvin Brown University

Calvin Brown has been writing and architecting software since 1996. In that time he has designed and led cloud transformations across AWS, Azure, and GCP for Fortune 500 companies, governments, and founders — building platforms for Delta Air Lines, The Grammys, AT&T, Accenture, GE, Norfolk Southern, CEVA Logistics, Western Governors University, and Parker Hannifin and dozens of others.

The work has always been global. Logistics networks that move freight across continents, airline systems that cannot go down, enterprise architecture programs spanning distributed teams in multiple countries. He is an AWS Solutions Architect Professional, and he founded Kairu Consulting in 2003 to do this kind of delivery for the world's largest organizations.

He has also built from nothing. BookMyStylist, created in 2005 to run his own barber locations, became one of the first online booking platforms for the beauty industry — trademarked, patented, and eventually licensed by a major VC firm into some of today's largest salon and barber booking platforms. Today, through SweetGum.ai, he brings enterprise-grade AI and automation to the companies that were priced out of it.

And he has spent years building rooms for other people to stand in. Black Men Coding, which he founded in 2017, has grown to five thousand Black engineers. This university is the next version of that instinct: taking three decades of field experience and handing it to the people who come next.