Vanessa Gennarelli
Cofounder And Chief Operating Officer
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Gennarelli is a seasoned operator and educator with 14 years of experience building programs and products that scale developer and learner communities. As cofounder and COO of Workbrew she combines startup leadership with a background running GitHub Education programs where she led strategy and product initiatives for developer learning. Her work spans product, community design, and front-end contributions to open-source learning projects like P2PU’s course-in-a-box, reflecting a hands-on approach to improving learning experiences and UX. Vanessa also advises remote-first organizations through her consultancy Fortuna.ink and serves on the board of Circadium, demonstrating a sustained commitment to alternative education and arts programming. Trained at Harvard GSE and Stanford LEAD, she blends research-driven learning design with operational rigor to help teams adopt practical, people-centered processes. She’s equally comfortable updating course HTML/CSS as she is scaling education programs across global platforms.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lake Forest High SchoolStanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessB.A., English, Gender and Women's Studies, B.A., English, Gender and Women's Studies at Grinnell CollegeThe American University of ParisM. of Ed, Technology, Innovation and Education, M. of Ed, Technology, Innovation and Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Github Skills (10)
html10
python-course10
jekyll10
github9
css9
templater8
markdown-it8
markdown8
template-engine8
ed255197
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
p2pu/course-in-a-box
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vanessa primarily focused on updating the `index.html` file of the course project. Their contributions involved modifying the introductory text, updating links, and adjusting the layout of the course content. The changes included updates to the course description and adding new sections to improve the user experience. The user also updated the background image within the CSS file to customize the course's visual presentation.
templatereactonline-coursesjavascriptnodejs
Campus-Advisors/Module-3-Group-work
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Group work content and exercises for Campus Advisors
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
campus
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