About Tami
Tami is the just-in-time training platform that fixes training chaos for fast-growing companies.
Our Mission
Tami exists to reinvent the corporate ILT experience: connecting companies with top-tier instructors, customized content, and smart delivery infrastructure that fits how real teams operate. We’re here to eliminate the friction, break the one-size-fits-all model, and turn learning into a growth engine that actually works.
A Bold Vision
To transform how the world learns at work by making instructor-led training as flexible, personalized, and scalable as modern teams demand.
Our Team Has Decades of Experience in Online Learning and Tech
Kelby Zorgdrager is a builder of code, companies, and game-changing learning experiences. Starting as a developer, he quickly noticed a major gap between how devs work and how they’re usually trained. That realization eventually led him to Sun Microsystems, where he played a key role in shaping their educational services.
In 2006, he launched DevelopIntelligence to offer deeply customized, hands-on training for engineering and R&D teams. Under his leadership, the company became a go-to partner for Fortune 500s and was later acquired by Pluralsight, where Kelby led the charge in scaling their instructor-led training division.
Dean Hiller, the technical brain behind Tami, has spent his career building scalable systems that actually work—whether in high-frequency trading, healthtech, or startup life. He’s a coder who thinks in systems, a leader who’s guided engineering teams through some gnarly technical challenges, and a co-founder who’s always looking for elegant, practical solutions. His partnership with Kelby just makes sense: Kelby knows the pain points in training inside and out, and Dean has the engineering chops to tackle them head-on. Their skill sets don’t just complement each other; they accelerate each other.
Dave Murphy is Head of Go-To-Market, leading marketing and sales efforts. Dave is a veteran sales and marketing leader who helped scale DevelopIntelligence to acquisition by Pluralsight. He also has over a decade of experience in sales roles at various tech startups. At Tami, he drives the go-to-market strategy and customer success for modern learning solutions.
Our Story
For years, corporate learning leaders have tried to make instructor-led training work at scale. But under the hood, the process has barely changed.
Sourcing instructors, negotiating contracts, juggling logistics, and trying to fit cookie-cutter content into a unique engineering org, it’s still clunky, slow, and inconsistent.
And let’s be honest: most ILT providers are pulling from the same pool of contract practitioners, delivering the same slide decks, over and over again.
Long lectures. Off-the-shelf content. Big vendor price tags. And after all that? Your team still doesn’t have the skills they actually need.
That’s where Tami comes in. Tami was built to fix the messy, outdated infrastructure behind corporate ILT. It’s not just a scheduling tool or a course catalog; it’s a full-stack SaaS platform designed to make instructor-led training smarter, faster, and actually effective.
Tami is here to deliver curated instructors (not just whoever’s available), content that’s tailored to the specific team, and delivery that flexes with how modern dev and product teams actually work.
No more generic workshops. No more black-box vendor relationships.
Our founders, Kelby Zorgdrager and Dean Hiller, have been on both sides of this mess. Kelby built a top-tier custom ILT company that served the Fortune 500, which Pluralsight acquired. Dean led engineering organizations that required rapid, real-world skill development. And both kept running into the same problems:
- “Custom” training that wasn’t really custom
- Weeks spent emailing vendors just to get a quote
- The same instructors showing up with different logos
- Programs that cost a fortune and didn’t move the needle
So they’re building Tami: a smarter way to do live, expert-led training.
With Tami, you can:
- Design a tailored program in minutes (with a little help from AI)
- Match with vetted instructors based on what your team actually needs
- Run everything — delivery, scheduling, outcomes — in one smooth flow
It’s like building your own internal training engine, minus the overhead.
No bloat. No brokering. No boxed content.
Just relevant, practical, people-first learning that actually works.
Let’s chat about your training goals.