Geoff Harcourt
CTO @CommonLit
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WORK HISTORY
CTO @CommonLit
Washington, DC, US
CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. Our program has served over 30 million students, and continues to grow. Things I\'ve worked on at CommonLit:• managed and expanded CommonLit\'s engineering team through a period of dramatic growth as we went from 1m registered users to over 30m accounts• built a high-trust team with excellent retention and strong career development practices• developed a new deployment process to reduce downtime and enable shipment of new features several times a day rather than several times a week• overhauled CommonLit\'s automated testing to provide faster feedback with stronger signal and more reliable tests• implemented a canary testing system to give extra confidence on deployments• prepared CommonLit\'s infrastructure and engineering practices to get our first SOC2 audit• advocated for and sponsored CommonLit\'s push to be accessible to students who use assistive technology• improved application performance to help our application increase our active user population by 10x while achieving faster response times• migrated CommonLit to a new hosting environment on AWS with zero downtime
EDUCATION
Harvard University
Bachelor's, History
ABOUT GEOFF HARCOURT
Geoff is the CTO at CommonLit, a non-profit whose mission is to spread literacy and writing skills to millions of students around the world. His small team works on a big dream, delivering their online tool to millions students around the world. Before joining CommonLit, Geoff worked at the design and development consultancy thoughtbot, where he helped young companies with sudden growth improve their development processes and scale their software to meet demand. He\'s worked primarily in Ruby and JavaScript but loves to try out and learn new tools.
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