The people behind every lesson.

Jin Young leads DB Prep Academy with a single conviction: that a student learns fastest when one teacher watches one student work, in real time, and corrects a mistake in the second it happens. The academy began in Los Angeles in 2020 as a handful of one-to-one coding lessons; today its students medal at ACSL, USACO, and the Genius Olympiad every season.

As Principal, Jin Young sets the direction of the academy and holds every program to the standard it started with. That includes the proprietary lesson platform the academy built for itself — the shared whiteboard, the code graders, the parent portal — because the right tool did not exist, and a student should not have to wait for one.

Jin Young's view is simple: the numbers on the results page are not the goal. They are the evidence that the teaching worked.

Via is the coordinator behind every student's week. From the first inquiry to the first lesson, Via handles placement, scheduling across time zones, and onboarding onto the learning platform — so that by the time a student meets their teacher, everything around the lesson already works.

Between lessons, Via is the bridge between teacher and home: tracking attendance and progress, making sure post-class feedback reaches parents, and flagging early when a student needs a change of pace, a different course, or simply a conversation. Every student at DB Prep Academy has a coordinator who knows where they stand, and for many of them that coordinator is Via.

Families describe Via the same way: organized, quick to respond, and genuinely invested in how their child is doing.