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File 03 Education platform

Building for millions of students and their teachers.

Technical leadership on a large education platform with SSO, reporting, assessment workflows, and PDF generation.

Role
Technical Lead
Period
Selected Toptal engagement
Scope
React / Python / AWS / Kubernetes
3.5Mstudents served
160Kteachers served
20+developers and QA

Field report

AP Classroom is a large-scale education product used across the United States. I worked as a technical lead on a team of more than twenty developers and QA specialists.

The scope combined a complex React front end with Python services, cloud infrastructure, reporting, single sign-on, automated testing, and PDF-generation workflows.

At this scale, technical leadership means making architecture understandable, keeping cross-functional decisions explicit, and helping many contributors deliver against the same product intent.