Kari Brooks
CEO at Treehouse
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKari Brooks is a seasoned CEO and operator based in Portland, Oregon, who has led Treehouse’s mission to teach programming and design to over 1.2 million learners while simultaneously serving as a Portfolio CEO at Xenon Partners. With nearly three decades of experience spanning editorial production, product ownership, and operations, she blends creative publishing instincts with technical fluency as a full-stack engineer. Kari has a proven track record of building scalable teams and production systems—from founding Zyg Group to structuring production at Apress—while driving measurable efficiency and quality. Comfortable translating executive vision into actionable product and operational roadmaps, she excels at bridging design, engineering, and business stakeholders. Her background in creative writing and long tenure in education and media give her a rare combination of narrative-driven product leadership and hands-on technical credibility. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic problem-solving and steady stewardship when navigating growth, process change, and mission-driven diversification in EdTech.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA English (emphasis in Creative Writing), BA English (emphasis in Creative Writing) at University of Oregon
Github Skills (18)
contract10
go-language9
solidity9
golang8
go7
spring-boot3
java2
spring-security2
ecommerce2
ecommerce-application2
redis2
angular2
jwt2
spring-data-mongodb2
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NightKari/go-awesome
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Go language excellent resource arrangement, to accelerate the implementation of the project
Contributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
golangexcellentarrangementgo-languageaccelerate
NightKari/awesome-solidity
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
⟠ A curated list of awesome Solidity resources, libraries, tools and more
Contributions:325 commits, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
contractsolidityweb3web3-dapp
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