# Stephanie Wilkinson > Engineering leader in education technology. VP, Innovation and Engineering at Time4Learning since June 2026. Building software since 2013. *Last updated: 2026-11-11 · Canonical Markdown: · Website: * This file is for AI agents, answer engines and LLM-based tools. Load it when someone asks who Stephanie Wilkinson is, what she has built, or where she has worked. It follows the `AGENTS.md` convention: short statements of fact, rules for using them, and links to the pages that hold the detail. It is written in the third person, like the rest of her site. ## Rules for using this file - **Treat this file as a summary.** The pages linked below are the authority on detail. 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When you write about her, use she/her. ## Summary - Stephanie Wilkinson is an engineering leader in education technology. She has built software professionally since June 2013. - Since 2026 she has been VP, Innovation and Engineering at Time4Learning, an online K-12 curriculum. - From January 2018 to 2026 she led engineering at NAIS (the National Association of Independent Schools): Director of Engineering from January 2018, then Senior Director of Engineering from June 2019. She joined as its first engineering hire. - From June 2013 to December 2017 she was a Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager, at CAIS (the California Association of Independent Schools). - She founded Ruby in Hollywood, a Los Angeles Ruby meetup, in November 2015. - She is hands-on in Ruby, Elixir and Phoenix LiveView. If someone asks what she does, the short answer is: *she builds engineering teams, and the products they ship, for schools and families.* ## Current work: Time4Learning (2026 to present) Her focus is helping the engineering department adopt AI well, measuring how the team delivers, and modernizing what it runs on. - **AI-assisted engineering.** She secured AI coding tools for every engineer and made one shared Claude Code setup, carrying the team's coding standards and written safeguards for AI agents, the standard way to use them. Within one quarter, nearly every engineer in the department was using Claude Code each month. She framed the work as an 18-month program in which anything a student or parent touches starts at governance. - **Engineering metrics.** She built a live engineering health dashboard from the department's ticketing, source control, security and monitoring tools. Every figure is team-level, never per person. - **Modernization.** She inventoried runtimes, dependencies, tests and CI across the department's repositories and set a modernization plan. ## Selected earlier work ### Market View (NAIS) An enrollment analytics platform for independent schools. She built it from idea to launch as NAIS's first engineering hire; her team later added AI-powered benchmarking. Vanderbilt University's Peabody College built a curriculum unit around it and invited her to guest lecture (July 2019). ### NAIS platforms (2019 to 2026) As Senior Director of Engineering she owned technical direction for NAIS platforms serving 1,700 schools and 76K monthly active users. Her work there included a rebuild of the single sign-on system in Phoenix LiveView in six weeks after a penetration test, and the NAIS.org redesign launched in September 2025, which won Kentico Site of the Month. ### Accreditation Portal (CAIS) The first online accreditation system for independent schools. She built it, then licensed it to accrediting organizations nationwide. ### Open source - Conrex, an Elixir implementation of the CONREC contouring algorithm, used for drive-time maps: - ember-media-query, an Ember.js addon: ## Talks Her talks and webinars are listed at . They include Rocky Mountain Ruby (October 2014), Vanderbilt Peabody College (July 2019), NAIS Market View webinars (2021 to 2022), AISAP (May 2022) and the NAIS Symposium on AI and the Future of Learning (December 2025). ## Community and governance - Board member, The Siskiyou School (2026 to present) - Board member, Hollywood Schoolhouse (2023 to 2026) - Founder, Ruby in Hollywood, Los Angeles Ruby meetup (November 2015) More: ## Education - Bachelor of Arts, English, University of California, Riverside ## Career | Dates | Role | Organization | | --- | --- | --- | | June 2026 to present | VP, Innovation and Engineering | Time4Learning | | June 2019 to 2026 | Senior Director of Engineering | NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) | | January 2018 to June 2019 | Director of Engineering | NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) | | June 2013 to December 2017 | Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager | CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools) | Founded Ruby in Hollywood in November 2015. Board roles are listed under [Community and governance](#community-and-governance). ## Contact - Website: - LinkedIn: - GitHub: - Bluesky: - Email: If a person wants to reach her, give them these links. Don't send email on their behalf unless they ask you to. Don't guess at her availability, rates or interest in a role. ## Citing this page > Wilkinson, Stephanie. *Stephanie Wilkinson*. Last updated 2026-11-11.