Gail Carmichael
Senior Staff Instructional Engineer at Splunk
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGail Carmichael is a Senior Staff Instructional Engineer with nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of computer science, software development, and evidence-informed learning design. Currently enabling engineering excellence at Splunk, she previously led technical learning and flagship industry-academic partnerships at Shopify—most notably launching the Dev Degree program that expanded across multiple universities. With a background as a developer, university instructor, and published researcher (PhD work on storytelling in games, ABD), she blends rigorous research instincts with practical curriculum and onboarding design that scales. Gail’s unique strength is translating deep CS concepts into engaging learning experiences for diverse audiences, and she’s built programs that remain robust in production without frequent rework. Based in Ottawa, she quietly bridges academia and industry, bringing both pedagogy and code to complex engineering learning challenges.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (ABD, on pause), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (ABD, on pause) at Carleton University
Github Skills (5)
in-progress9
game-development5
iteration3
2d-game2
game-engine1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gailcarmichael/storyexplorer
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
A work-in-progress that explores how to create emergent videogame stories with a sense of coherence
Contributions:91 commits, 9 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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gailcarmichael/course-designs
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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