Summary
Kai Ng is a Senior Consultant and former award-winning high school mathematics teacher with a track record of translating complex technical and pedagogical problems into practical, user-focused solutions. With nine years in education and four years of technical experience, Kai has rebuilt curricula into project-based, code-driven courses using R, Python, MATLAB, Shiny, and bookdown, and published a GitHub-hosted site to teach R to high schoolers. At Appian he led LMS and CMS engineering work, improving uptime to 99.9%, halving load times for a key subsystem, and upskilling dozens of colleagues in low-code and process automation. Kai combines classroom leadership—driving top district growth metrics and earning Outstanding Secondary Educator—with hands-on software skills like PostgreSQL-backed home automation and rapid language adoption. He excels at turning domain expertise into scalable learning products and developer tooling, and is comfortable working as both a collaborative teammate and a technical lead. Based in Virginia, he brings a rare blend of instructional design, product-minded engineering, and measurable impact on student and system outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
Master of Education - MEd, Mathematics Teacher Education, Master of Education - MEd, Mathematics Teacher Education at Lesley University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Labor and Industrial Relations, Bachelor of Science - BS, Labor and Industrial Relations at Cornell University
Stuyvesant High School