Leonardo Coronado became the newest member of the Nazareth Tech Team at the start of the 2024-25 school year. Inside the world of technology, Coronado is able to do many things from coding and programming, to the creation of networks and servers. Even though his experience at Nazareth just began he said, “It is very beautiful and a lot of the people here are very nice.”

Coronado’s love of technology started when he was just a child, playing computer games with his dad. He said, “I first got an interest in [technology] because it opened a whole new world and that’s when my interest started.” Coronado’s love for video games has not stopped since and while he was in college he even created games of his own. He said, “I coded games like the video games Flappy Bird and Tron.” Coronado said that the games only took him about a week to make and that when coding a game the only limit to what you can create is your imagination. 

Before his professional career, Coronado attended Downers Grove South High School; from there he went to College of Dupage before transferring to Lewis University where he majored in computer programming and learned more about different programming languages.

Soon after, he started his degree in Computer Science to understand more about networks. Coronado said that within networking, you get to manage all the data traffic in a building, and the amount of data that is accessible is large. “I learned from the best, Mr. Guzaitis has taught me a lot more about this job, now I know how to snip and structure cables in different ways too,” he said. Already Coronado has been able to expand his repertoire of technical skills in his limited time at Nazareth. 

Outside of his job at Nazareth, Coronado has a collection of action figures that he purchased for the children at a school in the Chicago Public Schools. He said, “[The action figures] were bringing so much joy to the kids at the school I worked at… and I just wanted to bring something for them to give them a broader world sense.” 

The collection also includes a real Oscar Award that he received as a graduation gift! Although he keeps the identity of the actor a secret, he is still very grateful for the gift. In October, Coronado will be going to Mexico to marry his fiancé of two years. He said, “Life has been kind of crazy recently.” After the wedding it will be his wife’s first time in America and Coronado is excited to show her all the sights around Chicago.