Cahlan Sharp
Co-Founder at SchoolAI
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolCahlan Sharp is a serial entrepreneur and technologist with 13 years of experience building education-first products and startups, most notably founding and scaling DevMountain to acquisition in 2016. Currently co-founder of SchoolAI, he combines hands-on engineering and product instincts with executive experience across CTO, COO and growth roles at mission-driven education companies like Prenda and Mainframe. Comfortable shipping across stacks—from mobile and server-side systems to learning analytics—he has repeatedly translated classroom and market insights into scalable tech and business outcomes. Cahlan’s background in instructional psychology and hands-on teaching informs a pragmatic approach to product design that prioritizes real learner impact. He’s as comfortable mentoring teams and advising strategy as he is debugging production issues, and he brings a pattern of learning fast from failed startups into subsequent successes. Based in Orem, Utah, he pairs local roots with a national track record of building practical tech education solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Utah Valley UniversityMasters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology, Masters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
github10
certification10
mongoose10
javascript10
twitter10
api10
git10
mongodb-database10
android10
mean-stack10
nodejs10
mongodb10
ios10
react-native10
css10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DevMountain/learn-git
Sep 2013 - Nov 2015
Just a basic repository for learning git.
Contributions:194 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
git-guilearning-git
DevMountain/html-layouts-2
Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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