Summary
Alain Fontaine is a product-focused software leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling education technology products. As Director of Product Management at Pearson, he leads personalization, exam prep, and mobile app efforts for Pearson+ Study & Exam Prep and managed the integration and decommissioning of the Clutch Prep platform after its acquisition. He co-founded and served as CTO of Clutch Prep, growing a textbook-specific video and practice platform into a trusted student resource acquired by Pearson in 2022. Alain blends hands-on engineering chops with product strategy, having built and led developer and design teams from his early freelance work for clients like Stripe and Mixpanel through to a Techstars-backed startup. Based in Miami, he focuses on turning curriculum pain points into scalable, student-centered solutions and is comfortable shipping across the full stack. His career reflects an uncommon mix of founder grit, technical delivery, and product leadership in the edtech space.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Academy, Engineering Academy at Coral Reef Senior High School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of Miami
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish, English