Shawn Young
Chief Product Officer at Really Great Reading
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Young is a product-focused EdTech executive and former physics teacher with 11 years in leadership roles transforming classroom technology to prioritize human teaching and measurable student outcomes. As Chief Product Officer at Really Great Reading and former Chief Platform Officer and SVP at HMH, he has led large-scale digital transformation, platform unification, and AI-driven instructional tools that simplify teacher workflows and improve literacy. He co-founded Classcraft, scaling gamification and SEL globally before its acquisition, and continues to shape policy and practice as a bilingual leader active with UNESCO MGIEP, Edteq, and local education boards. A hands-on technologist early in his career, he contributed front-end improvements to the widely used Meteor platform—fixing nuanced CSS URL handling and tests—showing a rare blend of product vision and technical craftsmanship. He holds a Masters in Education and a BSc in Physics from Université de Sherbrooke and is driven by curiosity, purpose, and a commitment to making technology amplify, not replace, human teaching.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Education, Learning communities and online platforms, Masters in Education, Learning communities and online platforms at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
css10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
testing9
build-system9
react8
npm7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the CSS minification component of the Meteor platform. They focused on improving how the system handles URLs within CSS, specifically addressing issues related to preserving hash symbols and handling URLs starting with "#". They also added tests to ensure the correct rewriting of URLs, including those with hash symbols, enhancing the robustness of the CSS minification process.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
classcraft/meteor-stylus-autoprefixer
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
stylusautoprefixermeteor
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