Wes Sonnenreich
Co-CEO, Co-founder at Practera
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWes Sonnenreich is a serial founder and technology leader with over 25 years building education, analytics, and innovation-focused ventures, currently serving as Co-CEO and co-founder of Practera in Cambridge, MA. He designs cloud platforms and program services that scale project-based experiential learning for universities including MIT and NYU, helping tens of thousands of learners annually improve employability through real-world projects. His background blends hands-on product and engineering leadership (founder/CTO roles at Pharmatrak and other startups) with corporate innovation strategy at Deloitte and technology scouting at Sirius Minerals. Wes combines an MIT computer science foundation and executive leadership training from Harvard Business School to bridge technical, pedagogic and commercial perspectives. An uncommon thread in his career is bringing patented technology and scalable program design together—turning educational research and consulting pilots into deployable platforms. He remains active in venture incubation and university teaching, continuously exploring how tech can broaden access to meaningful, work-integrated learning.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Music Management, BS Computer Science Music Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyeMBA equiv Program for Global Leadership, eMBA equiv Program for Global Leadership at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (66)
rest-api10
cakephp10
validation10
nette10
psr-710
rapid10
mvc-framework10
form-builder10
php10
orm10
rapid-development10
mvc9
php-framework8
wysiwyg8
bots8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
intersective/migrations
May 2018 - Jan 2024
Migrations Plugin for CakePHP
Contributions:3 releases, 4 pushes, 5 tags in 5 years 8 months
phpmigrationscakephpnette
jazzmind/cakephp-lti
Sep 2015 - Jan 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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