KENNETH A. ALBA

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Ander.AI

Vice President of Product, 2024–present

Six product lines, seven direct reports, four engineering teams on two-week cycles. 2,000+ commits to the core platform since mid-2025, most of them with a coding agent. Shipped a knowledge pipeline that generates assessment items from a customer's own documents and holds each one in draft until a person approves it, and AI coaching over voice and chat where every hint cites its page.

Trivie

Director of Product, 2021–2024

Owned the learner app and the admin portal. Launched the American Heart Association's white-label app, concept to App Store, 50,000 monthly active users. Led the team that built an LLM question generator starting in 2022. Trivie was acquired by Ander in 2024.

Electropath

Co-founder, Head of Product, 2018–present

Product strategy, roadmaps, and specs for early-stage clients. Advised at Harvard Innovation Labs; ran an annual internship with the University of Toronto.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Funk Predoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities Program, 2020–2021

Led student engineers on an open-source text-analysis toolkit and designed a course on computational humanities.

Boston University

Instructor and Course Designer, 2014–2019

Designed and taught six courses in English and the Writing Program. Coached ten faculty through the move to hybrid teaching, 2020–2022. PhD in English, 2025.

Internal Drive Tech Camp @ MIT

Director, 2016–2019

Directed a staff of 25 running a technology and engineering camp for about 150 students aged 7 to 17.

Aliterate: A Magazine of Literary Science Fiction

Editorial Consultant, 2016–2018

Read the slush pile, helped decide which stories ran, and edited the ones that did.