Hunter Hodnett is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with over a decade building consumer technology and ed-tech products, now serving as CPTO and Co-founder of Chipp where he leads product and engineering for a no-code platform used by 16,000+ AI builders and 36 million users. He blends hands-on full-stack development with entrepreneurial instincts—previously launching marketplaces and crowd-sourced MVPs that trained junior engineers and converted Figma designs into deployable micro-frontends. Hunter has a track record of improving engineering quality at scale, having built performance-regression tooling at Amazon Music and Reddit and retrained hundreds of engineers at The Home Depot. Based in the Greenville/Greer, SC area, he’s focused on making generative AI practical for individuals and SMBs and often spots product-market pivots early, having steered teams through the Web3 retraction into AI-first products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AP Computer Science, AP Computer Science at McKinney Boyd High School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at Auburn University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at LaGrange College
Draper Startup House Accelerator W22 Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Draper Startup House Accelerator W22 Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Draper University
AP Computer Science, AP Computer Science at Mckinney High School
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