Sam Nelson
Director Of Technical Curriculum at Ziplines Education
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Nelson is a product and learning leader with 11 years of experience building data- and AI-driven education products that scale. Currently Director of Technical Curriculum at Multiverse and consulting for organizations like GreenFig and RapidCanvas, he designs curriculum and learning systems that cut course development and delivery costs while improving learning outcomes. He has led cross-functional teams of 50+ contributors, implemented auto-grading and LLM-powered authoring features that reduced content costs by up to 40–50%, and introduced A/B testing and dashboards to raise release success and operational transparency. His background spans startups and large learning platforms—Dataquest, Thinkful, Udacity—where he grew programs into multimillion-dollar portfolios and operationalized analytics to guide content investment. With an MBA and MEd focused on education innovation, Sam blends instructional design, product strategy, and people management to translate pedagogy into measurable product impact. He’s as comfortable defining KPIs and dashboards as he is hands-on in curriculum design, and often embeds AI to automate production workflows behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education - MEd Education Reform and Innovation, Master of Education - MEd Education Reform and Innovation at University of VirginiaBachelor of Arts Economics, Bachelor of Arts Economics at Brigham Young UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Spanish
Github Skills (78)
reverse-engineering10
sega-genesis9
sdk9
excel9
zx-spectrum9
gameboy9
game-development9
grid9
csharp9
disassembly9
dotnet8
pandas8
spreadsheet8
opengl8
game-engine8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thundrio-kh/khbr
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A Python backed site to generate kingdom hearts randomizers
Contributions:2 reviews, 270 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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thundrio-kh/khpc-modsmanager-bridge
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 22 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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