Paul Grudnitski
CEO And Founder at Amp-up.io
Torrance, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Grudnitski is an EdTech software executive and founder with over a decade of experience building assessment and curriculum-linked learning systems. As CEO and Founder of Amp-up.io and former Chief Architect at Pearson School Assessments, he led the design and global adoption of high-performance, cloud-based assessment platforms used by major consortia and states. He combines deep technical hands-on skills—authoring core client applications, QTI item interactions, and cloud preview tooling—with business strategy and product leadership. Paul holds multiple U.S. patents in adaptive assessment, intermittent-network delivery, and scoring systems, reflecting a focus on resilient, scalable instructional technology. Based in Torrance, CA, he has a long history of translating complex assessment standards (QTI 2.x/3) into production systems that supported tens of millions of items. Uncommonly, he bridges curriculum, accessibility, and machine learning concerns, enabling new models for linking instruction and measurement.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Sciences, BA, Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (22)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amp-up-io/qti3-item-player-controller
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
Sample QTI3 Test Controller that exercises API's of the qti3-item-player component.
Contributions:5 PRs, 152 pushes, 8 comments in 3 years 2 months
assessmentsitemsessioncontrolpnpqti3qti3-item-player
amp-up-io/qti3-item-player
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 353 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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