Kura Labs

Distressed by the shortage of cloud engineers and deeply concerned about the growing wealth gap, technology entrepreneur Sheldon Gilbert launched Kura Labs to address this workforce and economic imbalance.

Kura Labs provides free training and job placement services in cloud infrastructure computing - which is experiencing massive growth, creating millions of new jobs, and reshaping the technology landscape - and across a broad range of specialized fields, including DevOps, SRE, DataOps, Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, and AI Infrastructure Engineering. Kura Labs' efficacy stems from its vast network of employers and unique focus on deep exploration of the vast array of real-world problems and challenges facing businesses and enterprises, and developing optimal solutions based on various technological tools/applications.

Since launching in 2020, Kura Labs has trained and selectively placed nearly 100 engineers, many of whom come from households with $30,000 in combined annual income. These engineers now earn average starting salaries of $100,000 at leading Fortune 1000 companies and venture-backed startups - Kura Labs has achieved a 85% placement rate - including Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, S&P Global, Draft Kings, Bloomberg, Oracle, AWS, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Live Nation, and Meroxa.

This has resulted in immediate and meaningful economic mobility that will generate over $12M in cumulative new wages by the end of 2024. Wages are on pace to exceed $90M by the end of the decade.