Clara Sloan is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling educational technology products, currently serving as Associate Director of Engineering at Academia.edu in Ann Arbor. She directs technical strategy and manages teams focused on author products and corpus growth, having risen through engineering, SRE, and management roles since joining in 2016. Clara’s background includes hands-on full‑stack development, site reliability work, and contributions to learning platforms like Khan Academy, reflecting a blend of product intuition and operational rigor. She holds a B.S.E. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and maintains an interest in open educational tools, as evidenced by her public GitHub projects related to edtech. Notably, her career shows a pattern of moving from implementation to leadership while keeping close to code and quality assurance.
11 years of coding experience
B.S.E. Computer Science, B.S.E. Computer Science at University of Michigan
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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