Brian Whitmer
Founder at CoughDrop, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Whitmer is a founder and product-focused technologist with 16 years of experience building impactful educational and assistive technology products from the ground up. He co-founded Instructure, helping grow a modern LMS to millions of users, and now leads CoughDrop, a usability-driven refresh of augmentative communication tools for people with complex communication needs. Grounded in HCI research and practical product design, he favors elegant user-centered solutions over low-level systems work. As a father of four with a child who has Rett Syndrome, he brings personal urgency to building technologies that genuinely improve everyday life for families and caregivers. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends startup-scale execution with a research-informed perspective on accessibility and edtech.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Stackoverflow
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318reached
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Github Skills (129)
canvas-lms10
lms10
aac10
video-chat10
assistive-technology10
chat9
insert9
css9
web-speech-api9
chrome9
webrtc9
nodejs9
html8
spanish8
javascript8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CoughDrop/coughdrop_mobile
Apr 2016 - Mar 2024
Skeleton for mobile app version of CoughDrop
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
aacskeletonmobile-appdisabilitiesmobile
CoughDrop/coughdrop
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Open source web-based AAC app
Contributions:6526 commits, 312 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
aacweb-baseddisabilitiespwaassistive-technology
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