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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.

Evidence plate / 03The classroomArchive state: verified
One-bit illustration of an empty classroom with rows of desks and a chalkboard.
AP ClassroomThe classroom

Mission parameters

AP Classroom

Assigned class
Technical Lead
Active cycle
Selected Toptal engagement
Known terrain
React / Python / AWS / Kubernetes

Recovered from the selected-work archive. Readouts are outcomes, not decoration.

20+
developers and QA
Full stack
product layer
SSO → PDF
workflow range

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.