Platform
Own the systems the programs run on.
Architect the website, the delivery tooling, and the platform work, so the systems carrying cohorts, partners, and curriculum stay under the company's control.
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.
Elsewhere
Lana on LinkedInFocus
What Lana works on.
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.
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.
Leadership scope
Lana owns the platform, the curriculum, and the evidence.
This profile frames what Lana owns: the platform the programs run on, the curriculum and programs behind them, and the evidence underneath delivery.
Curriculum and programs
Translate strategy into curriculum and delivery.
Design the curriculum behind applied programs such as AI.SPIRE and the emerging cyber defense and AI security pathways, so learning connects to real work, employer needs, and venture potential.
Evidence
Show partners what their programs produced.
Build the systems that record what each cohort delivers, so a partner can see the projects, completions, and progress that came from the work they funded.
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.