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Zack C.

Vipin Shri

Kathryn Teel, MEd

Matthew Thornburg

Zack Cronin

Sarah Smith

Stephen Saunders

Syed Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman

Hamdan Javed

Tyler Montgomery, M.Ed

Trista Blauser

Rina Patel

Jessica Lorenzo

Hannah Kobylarczyk, M.S. Ed.

Christian Cota

Carolyn M.

Mahsa Bakhshaei

James D.

Karin Hutchinson

Daryn Wood

Zac Stein

Alessandra Young

Kailee Smith

Chase Vandenberg

Stephan Rudolph

Lynn Gill

Jeannine DePaul

Julie Estes

Angelica Reilly

Chiara Geremia is a Customer Success Manager at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Chiara has previously worked as a customer success manager at [Nearpod](/org/nearpod) and as a schools manager at [EVERFI](/org/everfi). Chiara has also worked as a math teacher at [Teach For America](/org/teach-for-america). Chiara has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chiara Geremia has a Bachelor's Degree from [The University of Texas at Austin](/org/the-university-of-texas-at-austin) in Marketing and Supply Chain Management.

Chiara Geremia reports to Annika Pettitt, Director of Customer Success. Some of their coworkers include Julie Estes - User Support Advocate, Mahsa Bakhshaei - Senior UX Researcher.

Chiara Geremia

Mike Barboza

Adam Lee

Rakibul Shawon

Kathryn Teel

Michael Reinert

Beau Herron

Carmelita Valimento

Charles Gardner

Elizabeth Margolis

Flora Xu

Sarah Chen

Max Vaillancourt

Ben Schwartz is a senior product designer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Prior to joining [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), they were a designer fellow at [Designer Fund](/org/designer-fund) and a product designer at [Indiegogo](/org/indiegogo). Ben has also served as the director of San Francisco at Studio216, a UX design consultant at Fitter, and a web designer at Mw|works Architecture + Design. In addition, they have volunteered with Habitat for Humanity East King County as a construction volunteer lead.

Ben Schwartz attended [Iowa State University](/org/iowa-state-university) where they studied architecture and digital media. Ben later attended [General Assembly](/org/general-assembly) for their User Experience Design Immersive program. Before that, they completed their high school education at Kingsley-Pierson High School. Ben also has certifications from Code School in JavaScript Road Trip Part 1, Front-end Formations - HTML5+CSS3, and Front-end Foundations.

Ben Schwartz reports to Peter Andrea, Head of Design. Some of their coworkers include Natalie Logan - Product Designer, Ariel Steinglass - Senior Product Designer, and Vivian Ho - Senior Product Designer.

Ben Schwartz

Lisa Zumbrun is the Senior Director of Finance at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Prior to [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), they were the Senior Finance Manager at [Nurx](/org/nurx), a telemedicine startup backed by [Kleiner Perkins](/org/kleiner-perkins) and [Union Square Ventures](/org/usv). Lisa has also worked as Lead Financial Analyst at [Blue Shield of California](/org/blue-shield-of-california), where they managed the IT budget and conducted audit processes. Lisa has a passion for numbers and improving financial processes - they are always looking for ways to optimize company spending and increase efficiencies. Her attention to detail and analytical skills have made their an invaluable asset to any organization.

Lisa has a Bachelor of Science in Genetics from [The University of Western Australia](/org/the-university-of-western-australia) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance from [The University of Western Australia](/org/the-university-of-western-australia). Lisa also has certification from the [CFA Institute](/org/cfa-institute) as a CFA and from Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand as a Chartered Accountant.

Their manager is Ahsan Rizvi, Founder & CEO. A direct report to Lisa Zumbrun is and Liz Mok - Accounting Manager. Lisa Zumbrun works with Ryan Toben - Chief Revenue Officer, Marvin Varnphruk - Director of Revenue Operations, and Sebastian Feldman - Senior Product Manager.

Lisa Zumbrun

Darin Enferadi is the current Head of Talent at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Prior to this, they served as the VP of Talent at Apollo from October 2017 to August 2018, and as the Head of Talent at [Parsable](/org/parsable) from February 2016 to October 2017. 

Darin has extensive experience in building and scaling recruiting functions from scratch. Darin has also optimized and improved employment brands, conducted interview training, and taught inexperienced founders how to sell. 

At [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), Darin is responsible for all aspects of talent acquisition and management. Darin oversees the recruiting team, creates recruiting best practices, and manages the tech stack for all recruiting and sourcing tools. Darin also rebuilt the employment brand after a company rebrand and major product pivot.

Darin Enferadi studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz before completing a degree in human resources management from UC Berkeley Extension. Darin began their educational career at Monte Vista High School.

Jacquie McCarley - Senior Recruiter, Darryl Paltao - Recruiting Coordinator report to Darin Enferadi. They work with Allen Cheung - VP of Engineering, Sebastian Feldman - Senior Product Manager, and James Dorsch - Senior Product Manager, Growth. Their manager is Ahsan Rizvi, Founder & CEO.

Darin Enferadi

Sebastian Feldman is the Director of Product at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Prior to [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), they were the VP of Product Management at [Nearpod](/org/nearpod) from December 2013 to December 2020. At [Nearpod](/org/nearpod), Sebastian provided the vision for growth and evolution of [Nearpod](/org/nearpod)’s solution for teachers and students, including use of multimedia, VR, formative assessments, games, and collaboration boards. Sebastian also developed product employee culture for Miami office.

From September 2012 to July 2013, Sebastian was a Mentor and Content Author for Compositing Basics course at Animation Mentor. In this role, they were responsible for providing personalized Digital Compositing instruction through weekly online critiques and group Q&A sessions. Sebastian also recorded tutorials for Intro to Feature VFX Greenscreen Compositing.

From April 2012 to August 2013, Sebastian was an Instructor - Visual Effects and Compositing Fundamentals Workshop at Tecnológico de Monterrey. And from September 2011 to June 2015, they were a Visual Effects Instructor and Content Author at [Academy of Art University](/org/academy-of-art-university).

Sebastian Feldman has a BS degree in Computer Sciences from [Universidad de Belgrano](/org/universidad-de-belgrano) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastian also has studies in filmmaking from [City College of San Francisco](/org/city-college-of-san-francisco).

Sebastian Feldman reports to Ahsan Rizvi, Founder & CEO. They are on a team with Allen Cheung - VP of Engineering, Peter Andrea - Head of Design, and Marvin Varnphruk - Director of Revenue Operations.

Sebastian Feldman

Abbas Manjee is the Chief Academic Officer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Abbas previously served as the Math Department Chair and Founding Math Teacher at ROADS Charter High Schools. Abbas Manjee has also worked as a founding math teacher at Innovation Diploma Plus High School and as an investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch.

Abbas Manjee has a Bachelor of Science in Finance, Technology & Management from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Abbas completed the New and Aspiring School Leaders Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Abbas also has a Master of Science in Secondary Education and Teaching - Mathematics from [Fordham University](/org/fordham-university).

Some of their coworkers include Annika Pettitt - Director of Customer Success, Ryan Toben - Chief Revenue Officer, and Darin Enferadi - Head of Talent. Abbas Manjee reports to Ahsan Rizvi, Founder & CEO.

Abbas Manjee

Jan Jirout is currently a Staff Software Engineer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Prior to this, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at [Indiegogo](/org/indiegogo) from August 2014 to August 2019. There, they introduced GraphQL into the company's tech stack and extended the legacy crowdfunding codebase to support traditional e-commerce. They were also part of a small team that quickly launched Generosity.com, and are now in charge of dismantling it.

From November 2013 to August 2014, Jan Jirout was the Lead Mobile Engineer at Cruiseline.com. They sold Ship Mate mobile app to Cruiseline.com and stayed on to integrate the Ship Mate community and features with the Cruiseline.com community and features, merging user databases and communities into one.

Prior to that, Jan Jirout worked as a Software Developer at Originate Labs from March 2010 to January 2011. Before that, they were the Founder and Lead Software Engineer at C Monster Solutions, Inc. from October 2009 to November 2013. And before that, they were a Software Developer at [Computers Unlimited](/org/computers-unlimited-inc) from November 2008 to March 2010.

Jan Jirout has a BA in Computer Science from [Brandeis University](/org/brandeis-university) and a Masters in Computer Science from Montana State University-Bozeman.

Their manager is Allen Cheung, VP of Engineering. They are on a team with Ghislain Aus Lacroix - Head of Engineering, Sam Lingampalli - Senior Full Stack Engineer, and Kalyani Verulkar - QA Manual Test Engineer.

Jan Jirout

Justin Pitta is a Platform Engineering Manager at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Before [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), Justin was a Sr. IT Infrastructure Engineer at [Lucid Motors](/org/lucid-motors) from September 2020 to June 2021. There, they were responsible for encouraging best practices for a healthy DevOps culture, building and maintaining kubernetes clusters in AWS, writing and maintaining documentation about the infrastructure, and evangelizing with engineering. Prior to [Lucid Motors](/org/lucid-motors), Justin was a Site Reliability Engineer at 23andMe from March 2018 to February 2020. At 23andMe, they migrated working environments from on-premises to new AWS account deployments, assisted in the testing & deployment of a multi-account AWS strategy, wrote and maintained CI/CD pipelines, contributed code to internal tools, collaborated on scripts, code, and stack configurations, conducted training sessions for engineering tools, and interfaced with 3rd party vendors to support joint efforts.

Justin Pitta studied computer science at Westwood College - Denver North and earned a Bachelor of Science degree. Their focus was on game software development, which prepared him for a career in the video game industry.

Some of their coworkers include Ghislain Aus Lacroix - Head of Engineering, Lucas Jandrew - Senior Platform Engineer, and Elias Bougrine - Software Engineer. Justin Pitta reports to Allen Cheung, VP of Engineering.

Justin Pitta

Jacquie McCarley is a senior recruiter at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Jacquie has also worked as a manager at Talent Acquisition, a partner at [Asana](/org/asana), and a lead technical recruiter at Metromile. Jacquie has also been an executive producer at Dented Can Cabaret.

Jacquie McCarley's educational career includes a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts- Design from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

They are on a team with Amir Wali Khan - HR Manager, PK Team, Darryl Paltao - Recruiting Coordinator. Their manager is Darin Enferadi, Head of Talent.

Jacquie McCarley

James Chiu

Corey Farris

Ally Gee

Fahad Ahmed

Nick Dunn

Solomon Barth

Steven Le

Baligh Rahman

Joel Brent

Vivian Ho is currently a Senior Product Designer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Vivian has extensive experience in product design, brand identity, and design systems. Vivian has also been a teaching assistant and has their own design studio. Vivian's work revolves around helping people and making things more accessible.

Vivian Ho received a Bachelor of Arts in Design and Visual Communications from the University of California, Davis.

Vivian Ho reports to Peter Andrea, Head of Design. Some of their coworkers include Ben Schwartz - Senior Product Designer, Natalie Logan - Product Designer, and Carolyn Meadors - Senior Instructional Designer.

Vivian Ho

Peter Andrea

Allen Cheung is the current VP of Engineering at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Allen has also served as the VP of Engineering & Product at [Mystery.org](/org/mystery-org) and the Senior Director of Engineering at Affirm, Inc.

At [Kiddom](/org/kiddom), Cheung is responsible for the engineering, growth, product, and design teams. Allen has established pod structures, OKRs, team objectives, and planning processes. Allen also collaborates with cross-functional VPs and executives on company strategy.

At [Mystery.org](/org/mystery-org), Cheung oversaw all major engineering, product, and design initiatives. Allen also partnered with the People team to reimagine HR processes and leveling systems.

At Affirm, Inc., Cheung led the Finance Engineering organization and the Consumer Engineering organization. Allen also built web & mobile foundational teams focused on improving client-side developer experience and velocity. In addition, they revamped recruiting and interviewing across engineering in close partnership with the Talent team.

Allen Cheung graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.

Some direct reports include Sierra Modro - Director of Engineering, Britt Johnsen - Senior Technical Program Manager. Allen Cheung reports to Ahsan Rizvi, Founder & CEO. Some of their coworkers include Annika Pettitt - Director of Customer Success, Todd Bishop - Sales Director, and Wes French - Director of Partnerships.

Allen Cheung

Kevin Kozee is the Senior Software Engineering Manager at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Kevin has over seven years of experience in software engineering. Kevin previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at [Maxwell Health](/org/maxwell-health) from February 2019 to August 2021. There, they implemented story-based features in full-stack Javascript solution, updated Node / Express API to fulfill new features or fix bugs, created complex component based architecture on React front-end, and managed application state using Redux, unidirectional data binding. Kevin also wrote robust MS SQL queries to create, retrieve, update and delete appropriate data, made many major decision regarding UX choices for recent features, refactored CSS to SCSS and implemented better use of Bootstrap SCSS, contributed daily to Github repository through pull requests, discovered new NPM packages to solve complex use cases, initialized and facilitated code reviews and feature demos for team, company stakeholders.

Before [Maxwell Health](/org/maxwell-health), Kevin was the Engineering Manager at Illuminate Education, Inc. from June 2018 to February 2019. Kevin was also the Lead Developer at IO Education from August 2016 to June 2018 and Software Engineer II at CareerBuilder.com from June 2014 to July 2016. Kevin has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kevin Kozee earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from The University of Georgia. Kevin then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from [Oregon State University](/org/oregon-state-university). Finally, they earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education (Student Affairs) from [Clemson University](/org/clemson-university).

They are on a team with Amanda Brindle - Software Engineer, Luiz Dias - Software Engineer, and Tarvinder Saini - Senior QA Engineer. Kevin Kozee reports to Sierra Modro, Director of Engineering.

Kevin Kozee

Amanda Brindle is currently a Software Engineer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Amanda has previous experience working as a Full Stack Software Engineer at Breeze Church Management, a Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, and a Software Intern at both Intel Corporation and Altera. Amanda has also worked as a Student Assistant at Shields Library. Amanda has a wealth of experience in developing and coding applications, as well as preparing new desktops for events. Amanda is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for their work.

Amanda Brindle completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Davis.

They work with Ellie Fitzpatrick - Backend Engineer, Kevin Kozee - Senior Software Engineering Manager, and Chris Mikkelsen - Senior QA Automation Engineer. Amanda Brindle reports to Sierra Modro, Director of Engineering.

Amanda Brindle

Darryl Paltao is the Recruiting Coordinator at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Darryl has over three years of experience in recruiting coordination and has previous worked with Shift, [Roostify](/org/roostify), and [Rinse](/org/rinse). Darryl is responsible for coordinating all candidate interviews and job postings, as well as providing a top-tier candidate experience. Darryl also generates reports, sources candidates, and implements processes to increase recruiting efficiency.

Darryl Paltao has a Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Davis.

Darryl Paltao works with Jacquie McCarley - Senior Recruiter, Amir Wali Khan - HR Manager, PK Team. Darryl Paltao reports to Darin Enferadi, Head of Talent.

Darryl Paltao

Maniel Shah is a software engineering manager at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Maniel has previously worked as a software engineer IV at [Credit Karma](/org/credit-karma) from April 2014 to August 2021. In this role, they were responsible for collaborating in a cross-site team environment to develop applications on the Microsoft IIS, .Net Framework and SQL Server platform. Maniel also worked with the Development Team to meet technical expectations and goals. Prior to that, they were a developer at RealPage, Inc. from May 2012 to April 2014 where they worked in a cross-site team environment to develop applications on the Microsoft IIS, .Net Framework and SQL Server platform. Maniel was also responsible for one or more technical aspects of development. In addition, Shah has held internships as a software QA intern at [Purity Cosmetics](/org/purity-cosmetics) from August 2011 to December 2011 and Tiny Prints from June 2011 to August 2011. Maniel started their career as a systems engineer/level 1 technical support engineer at [Infosys](/org/infosys) in January 2008 and left in November 2009.

Maniel Shah has a Masters in Software Engineering from [San Jose State University](/org/san-jose-state-university) and a B.Tech in Information & Technology from [Nirma University](/org/nirma-university). Maniel also has a certification from the Jenkins project in Jenkins Engineer.

Maniel Shah reports to Sierra Modro, Director of Engineering. Maniel Shah works with Kalyani Verulkar - Senior QA Engineer, Kevin Kozee - Senior Software Engineering Manager, and Amanda Brindle - Software Engineer.

Maniel Shah

Nelz Carpentier is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom). Nelz has over seven years of experience in engineering management and technical leadership. Nelz has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley). 

Nelz began their career as a software engineer at Twitter in February 2014. In just four months, they were promoted to Senior Software Engineer. In June 2010, they took on a contract Senior Software Engineer role at Jive Software. They completed their time at Jive Software in December 2010. 

In January 2013, Nelz became a Mentor at Hackbright Academy, where they stayed until December 2014. From there, they went on to become the Orion Labs Web Services Platform Owner in June 2014. They held this position until September 2018 when they left to join [Cloudflare](/org/cloudflare), Inc. as a System Engineer. Nelz was with [Cloudflare](/org/cloudflare) for less than a year before moving on to their current position at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom) in September 2019.

Nelz Carpentier has a BS in Computer Science from the [University of Colorado Boulder](/org/university-of-colorado-boulder) and a B.S. in Computer Science from the [Illinois Institute of Technology](/org/illinois-institute-of-technology).

Their manager is Sierra Modro, Director of Engineering. Nelz Carpentier works with Kevin Kozee - Senior Software Engineering Manager, Justin Pitta - Platform Engineering Manager, and Johnattan Barona - Software Engineer.

Nelz Carpentier

Stephanie Duffy

Chris Mikkelsen

Ofer Chen

Emily Taylor

Stephen Loew

Luiz Dias

Tim Huynh

Johnattan Barona

Alex Dulin

Carolyn Meadors

Sierra Modro

Ellie Fitzpatrick

Kalyani Verulkar

Natalie Logan

Nick Nguyen-Dunn

Ellie F.

Sam Burba

Ahsan Rizvi is the Founder and CEO at [Kiddom](/org/kiddom).

Ahsan Rizvi

The leadership team at Kiddom has a history of working in various industries, including education, investment banking, and engineering. They have also worked at various companies, including Merrill Lynch, Le Sensor, and Affirm, Inc.

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