I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more. Check us out at sparkwise.co.

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.

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 signature Forum, tools for formative assessment, and a connected suite of authoring tools.

Back in 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) It has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, Sketchpad has been online and offered at no cost for over 15 years.

tl;dr - Ari does "learning engineering."