Kaelin Hooper
Co-Founder & CTO at Recess
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaelin Hooper is a serial founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering and product experience building education-focused startups from idea to venture-backed scale in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded Ender (raised $6.2M) to help high schoolers build hireable portfolios and now leads Recess, a startup letting kids design their own education. Kaelin blends hands-on software engineering (including early work at Microsoft and mobile/frontend internships) with product leadership—he was hired directly by Keller Williams’ founder to modernize home search. Beyond startups, he has invested in early-stage consumer brands and contributed to civic tech and nonprofit efforts in Austin, showing a pattern of mission-driven, cross-sector impact. Not obvious from titles: he moves fluidly between fundraising, building developer-facing tools, and on-the-ground program work to make education outcomes more practical and equitable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Panola CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinTexas State Technical College-Marshall
English
Github Skills (83)
windows10
dotnet10
cpu10
performance-analysis10
dotnet-core10
javascript9
browser9
nextjs9
react9
text-editor9
fetch9
vue9
compiler8
api8
isolate8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kae7in/kaelin.io
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Kae7in/hackanywhere
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
A fully remote hackathon
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
reactnodejs
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