I'm Ari Bader-Natal. I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help people gain access to new opportunities and create new futures.
I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise ignites your team's skill growth with interactive group challenges that spur real-time practice, feedback, and human connection.
From 2019-2021, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College.
Calbright is a fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system designed for working adults who lack easy access to traditional forms of higher education.
Before this, I served as Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1 in 2012, and spent 7 years creating new tools to support learning and teaching, including Minerva's first Active Learning Forum, tools for formative assessment, and collaborative curriculum authoring system.
In 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) In addition to serving as a venue for informal learning, Sketchpad has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, this service has been operating for over 13 years.
You could describe my work as "learning engineering."
- Web: Thriving as a Founding Engineer: Lessons from the Trenches
- Web: Running AI Models in the Browser
- Web: How Replicache Works
- Web: What’s the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization?
- Tweet: @Tweet by Cloudflare (Cloudflare)
- Web: I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence
- Web: Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas
- Web: The idea maze
- Web: Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data
- Tweet: @Tweet by Obsidian (obsdmd)
- Web: How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
- Repo: openai/evals
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