Alma Gashi
AI Product Manager · Education
San Francisco, CAalma.gashi@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/almagashigithub.com/almagashi
Summary
Product manager building AI tools for in-person, discussion-based learning. I ship products that survive contact with real classrooms — low-friction data capture, fast teacher legibility, measurable pilot outcomes. Heading into the Harvard Ed.M. (LDIT '26) to sharpen the learning-science grounding behind the product decisions.
Experience
Product Manager — AI & EdTech — Elite Education Group
Jul 2022 — Present · Irvine, CA
- Led product strategy for 5+ EdTech products, including an AI-driven classroom engagement platform that turns live multimodal classroom signals into real-time teacher insights — boosting instructor efficiency by 75% in early pilots.
- Shipped a low-friction data-capture model that teachers actually adopted; pilots saw measurable lift in voluntary participation from previously-quiet students.
- Built scalable workflow infrastructure for 20+ cross-functional contributors, automating analytics, feedback, and version control and cutting coordination time by 40%.
- Designed STEM learning journeys grounded in science-of-learning and UX research, reaching 1,000+ students.
- Managed and mentored 60+ data science interns across 10+ applied ML projects end-to-end.
Junior Data Scientist — University of California San Francisco
May 2022 — Nov 2022 · San Francisco, CA
- Built visualizations and dashboards that helped non-technical genomics teams interpret complex datasets.
- Applied ML models to validate research data feeding cancer and drug-related studies.
Quantitative Research Analyst & Research Assistant — Minerva Project
May 2021 — Jun 2022 · San Francisco, CA
- Co-authored a comprehensive research paper on Learning under Prof. Kevin Connolly, Ph.D — foundation for later product work.
Data Scientist Intern — Research — Data Science Institute, University of Chicago
Jun 2021 — Sep 2021 · Chicago, IL
- Shipped an NLP sentiment pipeline over 40,000+ streaming tweets (80% accuracy) to surface insights for academic research.
- Enhanced data pipelines, reducing data-access time by 70%.
Selected Projects
Classroom AI Engagement Platform
Elite Education · 0 → pilot
AI co-pilot for live discussion-based learning. Multimodal capture → real-time teacher insights. Early pilots: lower cognitive load, higher voluntary participation from quiet students.
UN Document AI Translator
Winner — Hack for Social Impact (fetch.ai)
Fine-tuned MarianMT on the UN Parallel Corpora; 93%+ cosine similarity to human translation. Shipped translator-workflow integration via Hugging Face + FastAPI.
faxx — Decentralized Truth Verification
Front-end + system architecture · Deployed on Fleek
Designed and built the React/TypeScript front-end and system architecture for a decentralized fact-checking social platform.
Education
Harvard University — Ed.M. — Learning, Design, Innovation & Technology
Expected March 2026 · Cambridge, MA
Minerva University — B.Sc. — Computer Science and Social Sciences
2018 — 2022 · San Francisco, CA
Coursework: Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, AI, Psychology, Science of Learning.
Skills
Product
- Roadmap & Strategy
- User-Centered Design
- A/B Testing
- Agile
- Pilot Design
- Stakeholder Mgmt
AI / Data
- LLM / NLP
- Hugging Face
- PyTorch
- Evals
- SQL
- Python
Domain
- K-12 & Higher Ed
- Science of Learning
- Classroom UX
- Teacher Workflows
Certifications
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (12-course series)
- Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization — DeepLearning.AI
- Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science