Cahlan 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 University
Masters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology, Masters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University
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