Team & Advisors

Student insight. Experienced guidance. A shared commitment to mentorship.

Tagapag brings together a student-led founding team and advisors with experience in technology, data science, and education. Their perspectives inform our work to make mentorship more accessible, structured, and useful for students and schools.

Founding Team

Eva Uhl

Co-founder & Student Lead

Eva is a senior at Los Gatos High School and the co-founder of Tagapag. She leads the student experience and works alongside Steve on product design and development. Her work spans student and educator outreach, user research, design, coding, and testing. She also brings experience as a professional lifeguard, swim instructor, and assistant running coach—roles centered on helping others learn, build confidence, and develop new skills.

Focus: Student and administrator feedback, feature prioritization, usability, branding and marketing, and school and district communication.
Interests: Guitar, singing, surfing, running, technology, and entrepreneurship.

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Steve Uhl

Co-founder & Product Lead

Steve brings more than 25 years of experience across engineering, product development, marketing, and sales, including work in medical devices and technology startups. He has served as a founder and product lead for several technology ventures. At Tagapag, he works alongside Eva on product strategy, user research, and development, helping translate student and school needs into a practical, thoughtfully designed platform.

Education: B.S. in Engineering, University of California, Davis; MBA, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Focus: Product development, internal tools, and strategic planning.

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Advisors

Brooks Allen

Education Policy Advisor

Brooks’s career spans education policy, public-sector leadership, and law. He serves as Executive Director of the California State Board of Education and Education Policy Advisor to the Governor. His background includes leadership and legal roles at the Marin County Office of Education and policy and legal-affairs leadership at Common Sense Kids Action. He brings a perspective on education systems, student needs, and the policy context in which schools operate.

Education: B.A. in Political Science, Stanford University; J.D., Yale Law School.
Focus: Education policy, school systems, and legal perspectives.

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Jacob Christfort

Database & Cybersecurity Advisor

Jacob is the founder and CEO of Ranch Systems, which he established in 2005. Before founding the company, he spent nearly a decade at Oracle, including senior technology roles and a CTO role focused on mobile, wireless, and voice technology. He brings experience in enterprise software, systems integration, and building technology businesses.

Education: B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, University of Copenhagen; MBA, Harvard Business School.
Focus: Database architecture, enterprise software, and systems integration.

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Bob Lapcevic

Data Science & AI Advisor

Bob brings 16 years of experience at Cisco, most recently as an AI Engineering Manager / Technical Program Manager. His background combines applied mathematics, data science, and AI engineering. He also contributed to Cisco’s AI for Good collaboration with CommonLit, which used machine learning and natural language processing to help teachers provide feedback to students. At Tagapag, his advisory focus is data science and the thoughtful use of AI, informed by experience applying technology in educational settings.

Education: M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Santa Clara University.
Focus: Data science, applied AI, and technical program management.

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Advisors participate in their individual capacities. Professional affiliations are provided for identification and do not imply endorsement of Tagapag by their employers or affiliated organizations.

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Tagapag relies on direct feedback from students and educators, with the goal of making peer mentorship easier to access, safer to manage, and more useful for every school community.

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