Katie Stroud
Founder And CEO at Elikonas
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Stroud is a founder and product leader with a decade-long track record building standards-driven solutions at the intersection of education, advertising technology, and organizational systems. As Sr. Product Manager at IAB Tech Lab she helped shape global ad tech specifications and later translated that ecosystem expertise into advisory and product roles for streaming ad ops and content distributors. She combines instructional design and storytelling chops—honed delivering training at Microsoft and speaking to 500 learning professionals—with pragmatic product strategy that measures outcomes and improves operational efficiency. Now leading Elikonas, she brings a systems-thinking approach to scaling products and teams, with a rare blend of technical standards experience and narrative design that helps organizations communicate complex change.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSTC Technical Communication Engineering Business English Art, BSTC Technical Communication Engineering Business English Art at University of WashingtonAAS Design General Studies, AAS Design General Studies at Clark College
Github Skills (23)
ccpa10
data-protection10
transparency10
privacy10
backbonejs10
advertising10
iab10
gdpr10
vast9
video-ads9
act8
openrtb8
interactive8
spec7
real-time-bidding7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IABTechLab/SHARC
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
A Safe HTML Ad Richmedia Container (SHARC) to replace SafeFrame and MRAID. Motto: Write one ad; serve it anywhere!
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
ElikonasDevTeam/elikonas-placeholder
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:130 pushes in 8 months
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