Colt Steele Net Worth 2026: Software Engineer & Teacher

No reputable publisher has estimated Colt Steele's net worth. The old version of this page gave both $8.3 million and $5 million without a source for either, so those figures are gone. What is documented is the size of his teaching business: his Udemy instructor page lists more than 2 million learners, and his flagship course, The Web Developer Bootcamp, has close to 965,000 students on its own as of August 2026.

What is Colt Steele's net worth?

There is no published estimate we can stand behind. Udemy does not disclose how much individual instructors earn, and Steele has not published his income. Instructor pay on the platform depends on how a student found the course and on discounts, which makes it impossible to turn enrollment numbers into dollars from the outside.

What can be said is that his income rests on a small number of very large courses, a consulting business and partnerships with other training companies, all described below.

Colt Steele's yearly income and salary

The old page gave him a $250,000 yearly salary, or $21,000 a month. That figure had no source and did not match how he earns, since he is not a salaried engineer. It has been removed. His documented income streams are:

• Udemy courses. He is a member of Udemy's Instructor Partner Program. His public profile showed 2,041,898 learners and 606,780 reviews in September 2026.
• The Web Developer Bootcamp. Launched in 2016 and still updated in August 2026, the course had 964,901 students and a 4.7 rating from about 286,000 reviews, with 706 lectures across 74 sections.
• Other courses. His catalog includes titles on JavaScript algorithms and data structures, Git and GitHub, Python and TypeScript.
• Consulting. A 2019 CodeNewbie podcast profile said he runs a consultancy that trains non-technical employees to become developers and helps existing engineers level up.
• Partnerships. In January 2020 Springboard announced a Software Engineering Career Track built with Steele and the San Francisco bootcamp Rithm School.

Professional life

Before moving online, Steele taught in person. On his own site and Udemy profile he says he taught at two immersive bootcamps, most recently as Lead Instructor and Curriculum Director of Galvanize's six-month program in San Francisco, where he reports that 94% of his graduates went on to full-time developer jobs. He also worked at Udacity as a Senior Course Developer on the web development team.

In 2016 he launched The Web Developer Bootcamp on Udemy, and he was voted Udemy's Best New Instructor that year. The course became one of the platform's best-known beginner programs, covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, MongoDB and, in recent updates, React. By the time of the Springboard announcement in 2020, Steele and Rithm School together had taught more than 695,000 students.

Early life and family

Steele described his start in coding on the CodeNewbie podcast. In middle school his father, who he said was not a programmer but liked building things, gave him a Parallax robotics kit for Christmas. He spent the year programming the small rover, then played with LEGO Mindstorms and later took AP Java in high school, which he enjoyed but found frustrating because it did not teach him to build websites or games.

The old version of this page said his father was a software engineer. Steele's own account says the opposite, so that claim has been corrected. The other childhood details on the old page, such as being top of his class, had no source and have been removed.

Colt Steele's wife

The previous page said he married a longtime girlfriend and credited her for his success. We found no reliable source for his marital status, so we do not state one.

Education: where did Colt Steele go to school?

Steele studied at New York University. He told CodeNewbie he first thought he wanted to produce and write Broadway shows, then found a Physical Computing course in NYU's ITP program, a hands-on mix of art and programming with 3D printers and laser cutters. That course, he said, showed him coding could be about making things. The old page's claims about his grades and a computer engineering degree could not be verified.

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Age, height and weight

His date of birth, height and weight are not published. The earlier figures of 38 years, 5 feet 7 inches and 67 kg had no source and have been removed.

Compared with other software figures

Steele earns from teaching rather than from owning a software company. For contrast, see the profiles of C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup, an academic and researcher, and Epic Systems president Carl Dvorak, an executive at a large software firm.

Why estimates differ

Sites that publish a number for Steele usually multiply student counts by a course price. That ignores Udemy's revenue split, its heavy discounting, taxes and costs, and it ignores whatever his consulting earns. Until he or a reputable outlet shares real figures, the honest position is that his net worth is not known.