Kelan Champagne
Engineering Manager at Whatnot
Larkspur, California, United States
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Top SchoolKelan Champagne is an engineering manager and product-focused engineer with 17 years of experience building macOS and iOS apps and system software, now leading the App Platform iOS team at Whatnot. He combines deep platform expertise from Apple (SpringBoard, Shortcuts) with hands-on architecture, tooling, and design-system work to boost team productivity and ship polished user experiences. Known for shipping core system features like Stage Manager, Widgets, and Personal Automations, he pairs UI craftsmanship with solid backend and CI automation skills honed across startups and scale-ups. Kelan brings a scientist’s rigor from an early career in experimental plasma physics, which informs his data-driven approach to process improvements and release reliability. Based in Larkspur, CA, he thrives at the intersection of product, engineering leadership, and developer experience.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (58)
objective-c9
cocoa9
cocoa-touch9
syntax9
lightbox9
swift8
async-await8
authentication8
image8
cherry-pick7
firebase-authentication7
ios7
firebase-storage7
firebase7
macos7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kelan/YRKSpinningProgressIndicator
Feb 2009 - Jan 2020
A resizable, recolorable clone of the spinning NSProgressIndicator.
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 years 1 month
macosswiftios
kelan/YRKSpinningProgressIndicatorLayer
Feb 2009 - Jul 2011
Contributions:15 commits in 2 years 5 months
animationcore-animation
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