Cole K
Founder, Head Of Product at Formspree
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCole K is a founder and product leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused web products from concept to scale, currently leading Formspree as Founder and Head of Product in Seattle. He blends hands-on engineering and product strategy, having moved from engineering lead and product manager roles at Squarespace to founding multiple startups including Brace.io and Koduco Games. His background spans full-stack development, UX-driven interfaces, and backend reliability—evident in contributions to Formspree that improved both frontend polish and exception logging for production readiness. Early work at MITRE and the Electronic Visualization Lab grounded him in complex systems and team leadership, while his YC experience sharpened his startup execution. He has a strong track record of shipping developer tools and consumer apps (including games with over 1M downloads), which gives him a pragmatic, user-centric approach to product design.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (Electronic Visualization Lab)BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityYCombinator
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Github Skills (19)
python10
forms10
flask-ask10
flask10
sendgrid9
sendgrid-mail9
heroku9
html8
css8
javascript7
pip6
react6
github-pages6
radio-buttons6
axios6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
formspree/formspree
Dec 2014 - Nov 2019
The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 48 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cole made several contributions focused on enhancing the application's functionality and user interface. They addressed frontend issues by updating the application's appearance, fixed typos, and modified the footer section of the website. Moreover, they focused on backend improvements by implementing exception logging and updating settings to match default Heroku configurations. The user also worked on the codebase to integrate features like handling uppercased keywords.
cssphpjavascriptflarumhtml-form
braceio/tags
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 3 months
static-sitesimplestsite-generatormarkdownstatic-site-generator
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