Fernando Del Castillo
Chief Learning And Technology Officer (Chief Nerd) at Gimnasio La Montaña
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolFernando Del Castillo is a veteran educator and technology leader who has spent over two decades transforming K-12 learning through strategic edtech, curriculum design, and teacher development. As Chief Learning and Technology Officer at MENTU and long-time Director of Innovation and Technology at Gimnasio La Montaña, he built the school’s first strategic technology plan, ushered in computational thinking curricula, and embedded data-driven decision making across the institution. He has led regional education innovation projects—including a multi-school exchange program in Chocó that uses video and print to spread best practices—demonstrating an ability to scale classroom impact beyond a single campus. Trained at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Fernando blends hands-on classroom experience with systems-level change management, curriculum design (Understanding by Design), and software-enabled solutions. Known to colleagues as the “Chief Nerd,” he pairs a teacher’s empathy with a technologist’s rigor to shift culture, infrastructure, and practice simultaneously.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciado en Filología e Idiomas Español, Philology, Licenciado en Filología e Idiomas Español, Philology at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaBachiller Académico, Bachiller Académico at Colegio San CarlosMaster of Education, Technology, Innovation and Education, Master of Education, Technology, Innovation and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
django7
django-project7
python6
django-framework6
django-storages5
recaptcha4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nando-bog/practical-django-projects-weblog
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
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