Ed Shadi

Co-Founder & CTO at Colearn

Ed Shadi has a diverse work experience that spans over several technology-related roles. Ed is currently working at CoLearn as a Co-Founder and CTO since March 2020, where they are responsible for building the CoLearn app and tech team from scratch. Ed oversees the entire software development cycle, including engineering, product, and design.

Before that, Ed worked at Expand.org as a Chief Architect from June 2019 to March 2020. In this role, they led the architecture and development of decentralized and open-source backend microservices for a blockchain/Ethereum based micro-task platform. Ed also built an open platform for external service integrations.

From August 2017 to July 2019, Ed served as the Director of Engineering at Typeform.com. Ed managed individual contributors and team leads, was in charge of integrations, growth, and platform experience cross-functional teams, and led frontend engineering across the organization.

Prior to that, Ed worked at Dev Bootcamp as a Principal Engineer and Lead Instructor from September 2012 to August 2017. Ed led the software team responsible for building back-office software and an in-house learning management system. Ed also played a role in architecting and building APIs, backend microservices, and contributed to frontend development.

Earlier in their career, Ed worked at Change.org as a Team Lead and Software Engineer from May 2011 to September 2012. Ed led various engineering teams, contributed to full-stack software development using Ruby on Rails and Javascript, and collaborated with product and design teams.

Ed also worked at dot429 as a Senior Software Engineer from 2010 to 2011. Ed built a social network using Ruby on Rails in an Agile environment with TDD/BDD practices.

In 2009-2010, Ed served as a Web Application Developer at MTB, where they handled full-stack web development for online news magazines and blogs.

Lastly, Ed was a Co-founder and CTO at Avalon Group from 1999 to 2004. This was their first entrepreneurial experience, and the company focused on software and social media solutions for higher education.

Overall, Ed Shadi has a strong background in software development, architecture, team management, and entrepreneurship.

Ed Shadi completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics from The American University in Cairo, which they attended from 1995 to 2000. In 2008, they enrolled at Franklin University to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. The end year for their second degree is not provided.

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