Melissa Sariffodeen
Co-Founder & CEO at Spoken Artists
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Sariffodeen is a mission-driven founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building large-scale, impact-first technology education initiatives across Canada. As co-founder of Canada Learning Code she has created over one million hands-on learning experiences and raised more than $50M to expand digital literacy, while also founding Digital Potential Lab to advise and invest in tech and talent. She balances public-facing leadership—keynotes for audiences up to 5,000 and a Barbie made in her likeness—with classroom rigor as an Ivey Business School faculty member teaching digital strategy and human-centered tech. Known for turning early self-taught coding curiosity into organizational systems that scale, she advises startups (including AI-driven apparel fit company DOUBL) and blends practice, policy, and pedagogy to shape the future of work.
11 years of coding experience
Honours Business Administration (HBA), Honours Business Administration (HBA) at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of TorontoMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Github Skills (14)
bit8
llc8
multi-page8
css5
javascript4
glitch-com4
php3
html3
ecommerce3
shopify3
liquid3
nodejs3
data-visualization1
visualization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
melissacrnic/mywebsite
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
melissacrnic/alloy
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 6 branches in 1 day
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