Liz Howard
Founder at lizthe.dev
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Howard is a founder and veteran engineering educator with 13 years of experience building and scaling technical training organizations and developer-facing products from San Francisco. She founded The Multiverse School and previously led curriculum, programs, and technical teams at Enki, Galvanize, Hackbright, and CodePath, teaching and mentoring thousands of engineers and achieving consistently high placement and satisfaction outcomes. Equally comfortable in the codebase and the C-suite, she has shipped front-end curriculum materials, reduced engineering spend by 80% as a CTO, and led R&D and psychometric validation work at Karat to measure engineering competencies at scale. Her work blends instructional design, productization of curricula, and hands-on prototyping (Node, Python, React) with operational rigor around hiring, team structure, and cloud cost optimization. Notably, she’s contributed to widely used open teaching materials (GDI SF web dev curriculum) and runs social and research efforts to make AI education practical and safety-minded. Liz combines entrepreneurial grit with a rare mix of pedagogy, applied research, and production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Founder Engineering, Founder Engineering at I founded schools like Hackbright and Galvanize
Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
css10
jquery7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gdisf/teaching-materials
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
GDI SF - Web Development and Programming Curriculum
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Liz primarily contributed to the development of front-end materials and exercises for a web development curriculum. They created and modified HTML files for data modeling and DOM manipulation, incorporating elements like JavaScript, CSS, and images. The contributions focused on building interactive examples, exercises, and presentation slides to aid in teaching web development concepts. The user's work included modifications to existing examples and the creation of new ones.
curriculumworkshop-materialsjqueryworkshopcss
joelburton/Javascript1
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 1 month
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