Lyel Resner
Visiting Faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLyel Resner is a visiting faculty and educator with 11 years of experience building programs that connect technology, social impact, and responsible innovation. Based in New York, he leads graduate-level curricula at Cornell Tech and MIT focused on launching and scaling mission-driven organizations across for-profit, nonprofit, and hybrid models. As a founder and early executive—most notably at Swayable and The Flatiron School—he has combined product, operations, partnerships, and fundraising to drive rapid growth and measurable impact in education and civic tech. He advises mission-focused startups and nonprofits (including Sourcemap and MEET) and has a strong track record designing hands-on courses that earn outstanding evaluations. Trained in physics and astrophysics with additional studies in business and media, he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor and practical startup execution to the public-interest technology space. Notably, he blends classroom pedagogy with real-world venture experience, mentoring students to both prototype products and navigate fundraising and impact measurement.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SB Physics, SB Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBusiness Media & Technology Education, Business Media & Technology Education at New York UniversityAstrophysics, Astrophysics at Russian Academy of Sciences
English, Spanish, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lresner/meetx
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
meet-projects/meetx-playbook
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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