Leith Abdulla

Leith Abdulla is the current VP of Engineering at Merit America. Leith has also previously worked as the Senior Group Engineering Manager at Khan Academy, CTO at HiHello, Inc., and the Engineering Director of Learning Experience at Coursera. Prior to that, they were a co-founder at Diffbot and a programmer at IBM.

Leith Abdulla completed a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University. Leith also has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, they are certified by Coursera in Programming with Google Go, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, Optimizing Diversity on Teams, Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams. Leith is also certified by Udacity as an Android Developer Nanodegree. Finally, they have completed certification courses from Coursera in Introduction to Genetics and Evolution and Functional Programming Principles in Scala.

Leith Abdulla reports to Rebecca Taber Staehelin, Co-Founder & Co-CEO. Leith Abdulla works with Amri Shahpuri - Development Director, Alysia Abrams - Controller, and Ryan Ouellette - VP, Program Operations. A direct report to Leith Abdulla is and Stephanie Chamblee - Senior Software Engineer.