Eric Bjella
Sr. Engineering Manager, Districts at Khan Academy
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolEric Bjella is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling education technology teams, currently serving as Sr. Engineering Manager, Districts at Khan Academy. He has led cross-functional engineering organizations at Panorama Education and Kuali, guiding product-focused development that supports millions of students and school systems nationwide. Eric blends hands-on technical leadership with customer-facing roles earlier in his career, giving him a strong instinct for aligning engineering execution with educator needs. Based in Fort Collins, he brings a creative foundation from a BA in Digital Art to thoughtful UX-minded technical decisions and team coaching. Notably, his career trajectory shows a pattern of stepping into growing organizations and quickly expanding engineering capacity and impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Digital Art, Bachelor of Arts - BA Digital Art at Coe College
Github Skills (15)
jasperreports9
moodle9
elearning8
web-application8
knockoutjs8
lms7
sql6
skin5
moodle-theme4
payment4
payment-methods3
collector3
in-app-purchase2
stripe2
stripe-payments2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
remotelearner/moodle-theme_altitude
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 1 push, 7 branches in 9 months
weixish/moodle-block_configurablereports
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 months
reportsknowledgesqlbuildersuitable
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.