I'm Ari Bader-Natal. I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help people gain access to new opportunities and create new futures.
I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more. Check us out at sparkwise.co.
From 2019-2021, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College.
Calbright is a fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system designed for working adults.
Before this, I served as Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1 in 2012, and spent 7 years creating new tools to support learning and teaching, including Minerva's signature Forum, tools for formative assessment, and a connected suite of authoring tools.
Back in 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) It has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, Sketchpad has been online and offered at no cost for over 15 years.
tl;dr - Ari does "learning engineering."
- Web: Home – Strandbeest
- Web: Home – Strandbeest
- Web: building-toward-learner-owned-portable-proof-of-capability
- Web: LLM problems observed in humans
- Web: The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
- Web: Building Multi-Agent Systems (Part 3)
- Web: A SIFT Rebuild (in progress)
- Web: Code Wiki
- Web: What we wish we knew about building AI agents
- Repo: garrytan/gstack
- Repo: EveryInc/proof-sdk
- Repo: googleworkspace/cli
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
September 2024
Bader-Natal, A.
Bader-Natal, A., Fost, J., and Genone, J.
Katzman, J., Regan, M., and Bader-Natal, A.
Levitt, R., Bader-Natal, A., and Chandler, V.
Bader-Natal, A., Lotze, T., and Furr, D.
Bader-Natal, A. and Lotze, T.
Patent pending
U.S. Patent 10,666,696
U.S. Patent 10,541,824
U.S. Patent 9,935,987
U.S. Patent 9,674,243
U.S. Patent 9,578,073
U.S. Patent 9,961,119