Keanan Koppenhaver
Developer Relations Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeanan Koppenhaver is a Developer Relations lead and tech generalist with 11 years of experience turning product ideas into shipped software and developer-focused content. He blends hands-on engineering and leadership—having scaled a consultancy to $500k+ ARR as CTO, led platform-level engineering at How-To Geek, and built content and growth engines at startups like Airplane and Retool. At Retool he’s driven builder-focused video strategy, demo craftsmanship, and large AI-focused events that attracted thousands of attendees, and previously ran the company’s first AI Build Week as a product marketing lead. Keanan mentors junior engineers, hires and grows diverse teams, and pairs technical product work with persuasive storytelling across blogs, webinars, and YouTube. Based in Chicago, he also acquires and operates micro-SaaS WordPress businesses, showing a practical blend of engineering, ops, and founder-level deal experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Buffalo Grove High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
484reputation
64kreached
6answers
8questions
Github Skills (141)
woocommerce10
menu10
wordpress10
wordpress-api10
turbo10
cli10
wp-cli10
regeneration10
cli-framework10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
entity9
ads9
taxonomy9
stimulusjs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kkoppenhaver/wp-rest-newspaper
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
alphaparticlecode/wprint
Nov 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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