Chris Kent
Chief Marketing Officer at Coder
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kent is an experienced marketing and product leader with a 20+ year track record spanning startups, Fortune 500s, and the U.S. intelligence community, now serving as SVP Marketing in San Francisco. He combines deep technical roots—from early careers as a UX/UI designer, Flash developer, and CTO of interactive firms—with senior product and security marketing roles at HashiCorp, Cohesity, Clarifai, and Metronome. Comfortable at the intersection of product, go-to-market, and engineering, he has led launches for cloud, security, and automation platforms while translating complex technical value into customer-facing narratives. A former intelligence officer, he brings analytical rigor and mission-focused execution to commercial product strategy. His background building hundreds of web and mobile experiences and running a digital agency provides unusual hands-on product empathy for modern SaaS growth.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Intelligence Studies with Intelligence Analysis, Bachelor’s Degree Intelligence Studies with Intelligence Analysis at American Military UniversityMulticultural Studies Multicultural Studies, Multicultural Studies Multicultural Studies at Shoreline Community CollegeHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Edmonds Woodway
German, Arabic
Github Skills (19)
secrets10
go10
vault10
access-management10
encryption10
javascript9
typescript9
data-visualisation9
runner9
recharts9
react9
api-gateway6
service-discovery5
kubernetes5
consul4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
truenorthcreative/Runner
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
truenorthcreative/recharts
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
chartsreactbuilt-with-reactchartchart-library
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