Team
Curriculum people and hardware people, in the same room.
Untether is small and deliberately cross-disciplinary. Instructional designers sit with the engineers who have to make a lesson run on a $40 solar tablet, because the constraint and the content are the same problem.
A. Oyelaran
Head of Curriculum · former ministry literacy lead
Owns the pack authoring standard and the multi-language literacy tracks. Ran district reading programs across low-connectivity regions for a decade before Untether.
- M.Ed, Literacy & Language
- 14 languages shipped
R. Kessler
Principal Engineer · sync & mesh
Designed the conflict-free progress log and the peer-to-peer pack distribution. Spends roughly a third of the year in the field watching it break so it can stop breaking.
- Distributed systems
- Low-power embedded
M. Diallo
Director of Field Deployment
Runs the assessment-to-handoff pathway and the regional hubs. The person who insists a deployment isn't done until local staff can add devices without us.
- Program management
- 41-country logistics
J. Tan
Hardware Lead
Responsible for the rugged classroom device and the repairability mandate: every unit is documented, and every common failure has a field fix.
- Industrial design
- Solar/power systems