The College Board Tech Stack
National assessment and educational pathways platform serving millions of students
College Board operates a mission-driven digital platform delivering standardized assessments (AP and SAT) and educational guidance to millions of U.S. students annually. The tech stack reveals a data-intensive, infrastructure-heavy organization: React + TypeScript frontend, Node.js backend, AWS cloud native (EKS, ECS, Kinesis, Glue, SageMaker), with a mature data platform layer (Kafka, Spark, Redshift, Iceberg, DataHub). Active projects span assessment platform modernization, ML data pipelines, and a national work-based learning initiative—suggesting a shift from pure test administration toward broader student outcome and engagement tools. Pain points cluster around scoring consistency, exam integrity, and managing high-traffic production workloads at scale.
Tech Stack 58 technologies
What The College Board Is Building
◆Challenges
- Scoring quality and consistency
- Exam integrity
- Security hardening
- Platform modernization
- Reducing technical debt
- Large-scale digital delivery
- High-traffic production environments
- Complex business questions
- Simplifying complex problems
- Scaling ml pipelines
▲Active Projects
- Core assessment platform
- Critical new initiative extending platform
- Ai engagement strategy
- Infrastructure lifecycle automation
- Full stack application development
- Automation solutions for incident response
- Infrastructure-as-code and ci/cd pipelines
- National-scale platform for work-based learning
- Ml data platform & pipelines
- Model enablement & llm dataops
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Engineering Director, Assistant Director, Director, Curriculum & Assessment, Digital Operations Platform Lead, Director, Learning
