Chris Pirillo is a founder and community-first product leader who converts passive audiences into active communities that drive adoption, retention, and revenue through content, live events, and hands-on product evangelism. With decades of entrepreneurial media experience dating back to founding LockerGnome in 1996 and recent roles at Intel and The New Stack, he blends creator instincts with enterprise-grade program management—taking projects from zero to funded pilots in months. He runs ctrl+alt+create live, a hybrid workshop series that teaches non-developers to ship AI-built software and has shipped 300+ no-code apps at arcade.pirillo.com, demonstrating a knack for rapid, practical prototyping. Chris is equally comfortable moderating technical webinars for sponsors like Red Hat and Elastic as he is building classroom-ready curriculum and corporate workshops, making him a natural bridge between product teams and the people who use their products. Based in Issaquah, WA, he pairs an English Education background with a rare history of spotting platform trends early and turning them into sustainable communities and revenue channels.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English Education, BA, English Education at University of Northern Iowa
Contributions:65 reviews, 111 commits, 49 PRs in 2 months
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