Summary
Jean Lange is a technical lead and people-first engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling teams, curriculum, and developer-facing products from IBM Watson to early-stage AI startups. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends hands-on coding and architecture with program-building work—designing onboarding, internship pipelines, and mentoring programs that turn junior hires into productive contributors. As an instructor and co-creator of Academy Pittsburgh, he’s equally experienced in classroom instruction, curriculum development, and hiring assessment, which gives him a rare perspective on both talent development and product delivery. At IBM he combined deep product expertise with enablement and customer training, and more recently he’s focused on growing engineering capacity and effectiveness as a TPM and technical lead. Known for clear communication, integrity, and a positive approach, Jean actively seeks conversations across the community and often spends time mentoring or advising outside formal roles. He’s as comfortable mapping workflows on Miro as he is debugging production code, and values practical, people-centered solutions that deliver real value.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Earlham College
Icelandic