Alex Cowan
Batten Fellow & General Faculty
Seacliff, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Cowan is a seasoned entrepreneur-turned-academic with over a decade of experience building and exiting startups and guiding product teams. As a Batten Fellow at UVA Darden he teaches digital design, development, and analytics to MBAs and has reached over 700,000 learners through Coursera, blending practitioner insight with classroom rigor. He founded and scaled companies acquired by BroadSoft/Cisco, serves as an investor and advisor in VR and ML-driven education and networking startups, and remains hands-on with product strategy. Known for a gimmick-free approach to product and a wry sense of humor, he combines operational grit with academic discipline to help teams turn complex technical problems into practical, teachable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, spanish (duolingo: 110), Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexcowan/software-development-class
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
alexcowan/Getting-Started-AC
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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