edpro.ai

I started my career feeding horses, as fate would have it, for a period landscape designer in Southborough, Massachusetts. I coded the company website on the side. That tension — between the analog and the technical, between people and systems — has defined everything I've built since.

After seven years teaching in Massachusetts public schools, I took that instinct to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where I earned a Master's in Technology, Innovation and Education. For fifteen years I returned each fall as a teaching fellow for T-522: Innovation by Design — a role that kept me grounded in the academic side of ed-tech long after I'd moved into industry.

Today I'm an original member and lead architect of Upbeat, an educational analytics platform serving 180+ school districts across the United States. Building it from the ground up — multi-tenant auth, cloud-native AWS architecture, real-time survey analytics, AI-powered open response processing — gave me a practitioner's fluency in the systems that modern ed-tech actually runs on.

What I do now at edpro.ai — an evolution of Educational Media Solutions, my DBA for the last 15 years — sits at that same intersection, but sharper. I work with small companies and startups that need someone who can think across the full stack — from database schema to product strategy, from LLM integration to the classroom implications of what gets built. I pair-program with AI agents and design agentic pipelines for autonomous development and quality control. I'm not a generalist who dabbles in AI. I'm an architect who has spent the last several years building production AI features and integrating modern LLM tooling into real educational software used by real kids and teachers.

Years of work in universal design and accessibility have shaped how I build. Section 508 compliance and WCAG conformance aren't afterthoughts I bolt on at the end — they're baked into the architecture from day one. Education technology has to work for everyone, and that commitment runs through everything I ship.

My background in education isn't window dressing. It shapes how I think about what technology should actually do — who it serves, what it gets wrong, and where it genuinely helps. That perspective is increasingly rare in a field moving fast enough to forget it.