Meet our team

Soomin is a senior at MIT who loves teaching and coding. In college, she’s spent time organizing HackMIT and trying out internships in tech and finance. In her free time, you’ll find her reading, going to concerts, skateboarding, and making stuffed animals.

Joseph fell in love with science while homeschooled as a kid. Since then he's used technology and data to improve healthcare, enable political activism, and accelerate disaster relief. In his spare time he loves to play games and jam with his friends

Before joining Primer, Mauricio was building software at both big companies and small startups - including his own. He is also the lead organizer for NSBrazil, the biggest Apple-focused software conference in Brazil

Garrett co-founded Standard Cyborg, a computer vision machine learning company, and before that, designed neonatal medical devices at Equalize Health.

Stephanie studied theatre and creative writing and has worked in entertainment since 2010 with experience spanning children’s theatre, fashion week, concerts, television, and international Broadway tours.

Connie has never grown out of children's books and sometimes writes essays. She enjoys learning languages and staring at paintings in her free time.

Eric has spent the last ten years building software for organizations as large as the Federal Reserve and as small as brand-new startups. He studied economics and math at Arizona State before winning the Thiel Fellowship.

Lucas is a high school student from NYC and is enthusiastic about learning and teaching web development. He also teaching young programmers javascript at a local non-profit.

Elizabeth has designed learning experiences at Khan Academy, Lambda School, and UC Berkeley. She spends her free time analyzing fashion shows and giving unofficial tours at art museums.

Aivant designed and taught courses on software engineering from the ground up while studying computer science and education at UC Berkeley.

Bojan has been writing (and occasionally fixing) bugs since 2013. He studied computer science at MIT and worked at Coinbase before joining Primer. As a kid Bojan fell in love with learning through the Math Olympiad programs in Macedonia.

Gonzalo has been building software for Apple platforms since 2013. Prior to joining Primer, Gonzalo studied computer science at the University of Florida and worked at Airbnb.

Emily has taught young people in public and private schools and adults in corporate environments. She studied math and computer science at Columbia.

Phil loves exploring the outdoors, playing video games, and geeking out over science. He studied physics at Yale, worked as an engineer at SpaceX, and is passionate about teaching science and engineering.

Prior to starting Primer, Maksim worked as a software engineer and engineering manager at Coinbase. He studied computer science at MIT.

Ryan was homeschooled from Kindergarten through 8th Grade, and started Primer to help homeschool his own kids. He's spent the last decade building tech companies at Square, Gumroad, and Omni.