About speaker

Builder and technical leader serving as SVP of Software Engineering at Trilogy, where Serban leads 0→1 product development across a portfolio of educational technology products.

Serban’s edtech work spans three pillars: learning applications (7+ apps including AI tutoring, spaced repetition games, and adaptive learning platforms), content generation infrastructure (curriculum modeling, AI-powered content authoring, publishing workflows), and learning analytics (student engagement tracking, mastery measurement, outcome correlation).

He has implemented learning science principles directly into products he’s built: spaced repetition algorithms, mastery-based progression, automaticity building, active learning over passive consumption, and knowledge graph-driven curricula. This work enables thousands of students at Alpha School to achieve 99th percentile test results.

Serban believes that education should be extremely personalized and ruthlessly efficient. The traditional model wastes time – students sit passively, then learn separately. The opportunity is teaching the right things in the right order, with maximum engagement and zero wasted time.