Thor Anderson
Chief Technology Officer at EdTech For Learning
American Fork, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolThor Anderson is a veteran edtech leader and Chief Technology Officer with over two decades of experience applying instructional design and web technologies to improve teaching and learning. He blends academic rigor—a PhD in Instructional Technology—with hands-on software and standards work dating back to Netscape, Apple, Oracle, and IMS Global, where he helped shape early learning content specifications. As an associate professor and program leader he teaches modern web stacks (Vue, React, Node, GraphQL) while also founding and directing nonprofit and bootcamp initiatives that connect competency frameworks to digital credentials. He has led large grant-funded projects and built open tools for mapping competencies in graph databases, bridging classroom outcomes with employer needs. Comfortable switching between research, curriculum strategy, product leadership, and code, Thor is known for translating complex instructional theory into practical, scalable learning systems. Based in Utah, he continues to explore emerging educational technologies to drive measurable improvements in learning and workforce readiness.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Instructional Technology, PhD, Instructional Technology at Utah State UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), German Language Teacher Education, Bachelor of Arts (BA), German Language Teacher Education at Brigham Young University
German
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Github Skills (44)
mongodb9
sqlite8
database8
orm8
sql-server8
prisma8
javascript8
nodejs8
mysql8
query-builder8
postgresql8
cockroachdb7
mariadb7
typescript7
mssql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UVU-DigitalMedia/DGM-Competency-Browser
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:118 commits, 112 PRs, 103 pushes in 3 months
connectionfacultycompetenciesemployers
thortek/component-practice
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:40 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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