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Meet Cara Yarzab - Staff Product Manager. Cara re-joined Prodigy in March 2024, having previously worked at the company in a number of roles between 2019 and 2022. She is now responsible for leading product teams around developing amazing experiences with a focus on our educator users.

Meet Steve Bergen - Director, Product, English Game. Steve joined Prodigy in 2012 and was actually the first full-time hire made by our Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Alex and Rohan!

Meet Krystin Champagne - Lead, Education Specialist, Product. Krystin joined Prodigy in November 2018, and designs, develops and maintains educational content across Prodigy’s games.

Meet Ryan Bruce - Staff Product Designer. Ryan joined Prodigy in the summer of 2023, and is a staff designer supporting the company’s Ecommerce and Marketing Technology teams.

Meet Justin Krinke - Principal Software Developer II! Justin joined Prodigy in November 2018. He is responsible for enablement work to support our internal teams, working on the highest priority projects and helping to find scalable solutions, supporting the company’s work with MarTech, eCommerce, and Parent users.

Prodigy’s Math Game team recently launched a cool new feature—Treasure Track—to motivate students to practice even more math through fun and exciting daily, weekly, and seasonal quests which unlock amazing in-game rewards. We spoke to Tiago Tex Pine, the Product Owner of game feature development squad ‘Magikarp’ to learn more.

Prodigy Education, leaders in game-based learning, today launched Treasure Track—a brand new math adventure where students go on exciting quests and unlock even more in-game rewards as they learn.

Meet Lance McKee - Software Developer III, Math Game. Lance joined Prodigy in December 2023. He’s based in Washington, and education runs in Lance’s family—which makes him a natural fit for Prodigy!

Meet Jonathan Richardson - Staff Software Developer. Jonathan joined Prodigy in August 2017. He is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining distributed software solutions, while providing technical guidance and leadership.

Meet Leo Scur - Software Developer III, Math Game. Leo joined Prodigy in January 2024, is a Software Developer III on our Math Game team, and is also Prodigy’s first-ever hire from Brazil!

Meet Yuleidy Gonzalez - Manager, Engineering I. Yuleidy joined Prodigy in February 2021. She is part of the MarTech team which bridges the marketing and technology teams at Prodigy.

Game-based learning leader Prodigy Education has made another key addition to its leadership team by appointing experienced EdTech executive Jeff Cassidy as Chief Financial Officer.

Meet Nafis Shaikh - Director, Product Management, Math Game. Nafis joined Prodigy in March 2021. His day-to-day work includes leading and assisting the product development teams in crafting engaging and enjoyable experiences for all of Prodigy’s amazing student players.