Skip to content

Co-founder

Lana Zumbrunn engineers the technology and curriculum behind the programs.

Lana is LevelUp's technical lead. She came up through software development and ecosystem building and now works at the front edge of AI engineering, and she owns the architecture underneath the programs — the platforms, the delivery infrastructure, and the curriculum itself.

  • AI engineering
  • Software architecture
  • Curriculum architecture
  • Ecosystem-building
What you'll find
How Lana builds the technical and curriculum foundation under LevelUp's programs, and keeps it current with a field that will not hold still.
Why it matters
Applied AI is only credible when the people designing it build with the current generation of these systems rather than the last one.
Lana Zumbrunn in LevelUp's black-and-white editorial portrait style with bold blue, yellow, green, and red print textures.

Focus

Where Lana spends the work.

AI engineering, technical architecture, curriculum systems, and ecosystem building

AI engineering

Build with what the field can do now.

Lana engineers the AI systems behind LevelUp's work and stays at the front of a field that keeps moving, so the curriculum and the platforms reflect how these systems are actually built now rather than how they worked when the material was first written.

Technology and platform

Own the systems the programs run on.

A software development background sits under the architecture of LevelUp's website, delivery tooling, and the platform work behind LevHub, including how curriculum and delivery evidence are stored, versioned, and secured.

Curriculum architecture

Turn capability goals into applied pathways.

Her work connects AI adoption, technical skills, entrepreneurship, employer input, and project-based evidence into curriculum that partners can deliver and scale.

Ecosystem building

Hold the whole system in view.

Lana connects talent, institutions, funders, employers, and local context so individual programs reinforce a larger economic-growth strategy instead of standing alone.

Leadership scope

Where Lana leads the work.

This profile frames what Lana owns: the platform the programs run on, the curriculum as a versioned artifact, and the evidence underneath delivery.

Platform

Own the systems the programs run on.

Architect the website, the delivery tooling, and the platform work behind LevHub, so the systems carrying cohorts, partners, and curriculum are ones the company controls rather than rents.

Curriculum

Hold the catalog as a versioned artifact.

Keep the twenty courses and their four capability areas as structured data with stable codes, so an edit propagates to every surface that publishes them instead of drifting between them.

Evidence

Make delivery legible to the people funding it.

Set how program evidence is captured, secured, and made reportable, so what a cohort actually produces can be shown to the partner who paid for it and compared against the cohort before.

For the systems thesis, institutional partnerships, and executive AI adoption, the counterpart is Mitchell Robertson

Next step

Work with Lana and the team.

If this is the kind of work you are trying to stand up, a direct conversation is the fastest way to find out whether we fit.