About me
I'm currently creating educational videos for my YouTube channel and exploring other ways to maximize human potential through education online.
For the previous 7 years, I managed platform engineering at Khan Academy after joining the team in 2011 as lead exercise developer and building over a hundred interactive math exercise modules. As the team grew, I helped build tools to allow scores of great teachers, tutors, and professors create rich learning experiences and led a partnership with Phillips Academy Andover to create the first version of Khan Academy's AP calculus content.
Before that, I worked on networking hardware at my own startup and previously at larger tech companies in sales and engineering roles.
In my spare time I fly airplanes and enjoy sharing my passion for learning how things work through my own instructional videos.
Interviews
If you really want to know more, on episode 15 of my podcast, Ben Ben and Blue, I talked through pretty much my entire career trajectory.
Additionally, Sal Khan from Khan Academy interviewed me in this video:
Credentials
As for my own education? My interest in improving education is rooted in the failure of the system to diagnose why I wasn't "successful". I went to school for computer science, but failed out after the first year and have no degree. However, I've accumulated a few other credentials: