Summary
Lorenzo Pasqualis is a veteran engineering leader and founder with 36+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, teams, and products that drive measurable business outcomes. As a former SVP/VP at DreamBox and Discovery Education, he grew organizations from single-digit startups to 150+ engineers, led multiple M&A integrations, and helped scale EdTech platforms to millions of students with 99.9%+ uptime. He holds patents in adaptive learning and has repeatedly translated R&D into durable IP and revenue-generating features. A hands-on technologist fluent in AWS, microservices, and AI-native operating models, he now advises and incubates agentic AI products while serving as VP of Engineering at InStride. Not obvious from titles alone: he’s improved engineering forecast accuracy to 90% through data-driven processes and actively combats the “85% trap” to move AI pilots into production. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with executive rigor to align engineering execution to strategic business value.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Computer Science, Computer Science at Istituto Technico A.Volta
English, Italian