Cahlan Sharp
Co-Founder at SchoolAI
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolCahlan Sharp is a serial entrepreneur and technologist with 13 years of experience building education-first products and startups, most notably founding and scaling DevMountain to acquisition in 2016. Currently co-founder of SchoolAI, he combines hands-on engineering and product instincts with executive experience across CTO, COO and growth roles at mission-driven education companies like Prenda and Mainframe. Comfortable shipping across stacks—from mobile and server-side systems to learning analytics—he has repeatedly translated classroom and market insights into scalable tech and business outcomes. Cahlan’s background in instructional psychology and hands-on teaching informs a pragmatic approach to product design that prioritizes real learner impact. He’s as comfortable mentoring teams and advising strategy as he is debugging production issues, and he brings a pattern of learning fast from failed startups into subsequent successes. Based in Orem, Utah, he pairs local roots with a national track record of building practical tech education solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Utah Valley UniversityMasters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology, Masters of Science Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (81)
messaging10
github10
certification10
chat10
firebase10
mongoose10
javascript10
twitter10
api10
git10
java10
callback10
android10
angularjs10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DevMountain/deployment-heroku
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
reminder steps for deploying a Node.js app w/ Heroku
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
herokunodejs
DevMountain/ecommerce
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
eCommerce project for learning MongoDB/mongoose
Contributions:26 commits, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
ecommercemongodbmongoose
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