MIT EECS · Founder-led
AI education and engineering coaching that actually moves you forward.
For ambitious students, parents, and professionals who want real skill — not another recorded course. Personally led by Edward Mabonga, an MIT-trained senior software engineer, and built around how you learn. It starts with one diagnostic session: we find what's actually blocking you and build the plan from there.
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- 250+
- Five-star reviews
- 1,000+
- Tutoring hours
- 1:1
- Premium, never group
Programs
A small library of deep, defensible programs — not a course mill.
Choose by goal: academic advancement, technical foundations, AI fluency, or career growth.
Most coaching engagements begin with a diagnostic and continue through a personalized series of 1:1 sessions.
For School and College
Contest Math
AMC 10 Math Coaching
Best for students preparing for contest math
Diagnostic-first AMC 10 prep across topic gaps, timing, problem selection, and contest strategy.
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AIME Readiness Coaching
Best for advanced contest math students
Depth, precision, verification, and advanced problem-solving habits for AIME-style work.
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MIT EECS Computer Science Tutor
Best for college CS coursework
Credential-anchored tutoring across algorithms, data structures, computer architecture, graphics, and more.
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Tutoring
Coding Mentor for High Schoolers
Best for project-driven high-school students
A real engineer-mentor guiding ambitious high school students from first programs to college-ready projects.
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AI Course for High Schoolers
Best for students building AI fluency
Build genuine AI literacy and hands-on projects that prepare students for an AI-shaped future and college.
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Coaching
System Design Coaching
Best for experienced engineers
Reason about scalability, trade-offs, and architecture at a senior level — with structured feedback after every session.
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Technical Interview Coaching
Best for active job candidates
Recondition for modern interviews: live coding, system design rounds, and behavioral framing with direct feedback.
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AI Course for Beginners
Best for adults starting from zero
Go from curious to capable. Understand and use AI confidently — no prior technical background required.
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Why Pristone Academy
The software was never the moat. Real depth is.
Anyone can publish a landing page. What can't be copied is delivery backed by real credentials, real materials, and real student outcomes.
Un-fakeable credentials
An MIT EECS background and a senior software engineering career — production AI/ML and system design, not theory.
Built around you
Personalized, accessibility-considered materials adapted to how you learn best — plus a private student dashboard for session materials, notes, assignments, and progress tracking.
Outcome-anchored
Programs are designed for measurable progress: interview-readiness, real projects, documented outcomes.
Trust at scale
250+ five-star reviews across 1,000+ tutoring hours — credibility earned one student at a time.
Flagship case study
Returning to senior frontend engineering after a career break
A senior frontend engineer completed a structured, 24-week one-on-one re-entry program — refreshing the modern stack, reconditioning for technical interviews, and rebuilding confidence with personalized, accessibility-considered materials.
24 weeks
Fully one-on-one re-entry program
Modern stack
JavaScript/TypeScript, current frameworks, state & architecture
Interview-ready
Live coding, system design rounds, behavioral framing
Let's figure out the right path for you.
A diagnostic is a focused conversation to identify your goals, gaps, and best next step. If there is a fit, we continue through a personalized series of 1:1 sessions.
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