I spent 25 years in education. I was a teacher. A principal. A superintendent of Mountain View Whisman School District. I lived every problem I'm now solving — not as an observer, but as the person responsible for solving it at scale.
I watched teachers drown in paperwork when they should have been connecting with students. I saw brilliant educators leave the profession — not because they stopped caring, but because the system made it impossible to care and survive. 44% of teachers leave within five years. That's not a retention problem. That's a system failure.
So I built the bridge.
144
units of affordable teacher housing built in the most expensive real estate market in the country.
65K
meals served — a county-wide summer food security program accounting for 40% of all meals served countywide.
4
states where I designed programs that closed the achievement gap and moved the needle in underserved classrooms.
12mi²
of municipal broadband built using school district dark fiber — delivering internet access to an entire city.
I've been coding since GW-BASIC in high school. I was recognized by President Obama and Secretary Duncan — the only non-superintendent honored — for my approach to Digital Learning. But watching Jean come to life has been different from anything I've ever built.
In 10 months, I shipped a new version every single month. Each one more sophisticated than the last. The current build — written in Rust and Tauri — represents not just technical evolution but a fundamental reimagining of how AI should work: intelligent, private, and human by design.
