Dan Carroll is a strategic advisor and edtech founder with 10 years of engineering and product leadership experience building systems that make classroom data useful and secure. As Co-Founder and former Chief Product Officer of Clever, he led a team of educators and engineers to simplify integration between schools and educational software at scale, and now advises both Clever and major education philanthropies. He combines hands-on systems, software, and data engineering chops with product intuition rooted in classroom experience as a former Teach For America teacher and district technology director. Based in New York and Harvard‑trained in human evolutionary biology and computer science, he navigates technical, policy, and operational tradeoffs to drive measurable impact for students. A pragmatic open-source practitioner on GitHub, he focuses on practical contributions that move products forward rather than spotlight projects.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
AB Magna Cum Laude Human Evolutionary Biology Computer Science, AB Magna Cum Laude Human Evolutionary Biology Computer Science at Harvard University
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python.
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
Contributions:3 PRs, 100 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 2 months
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