Kennan Frost
CEO, Founder at Icon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKennan Frost is a founder and product-driven engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling startups from solo founder to seven-figure ARR and exit milestones. He solo-founded Skio (Y Combinator S20), growing it to $32M ARR and leading a $105M cash exit after raising $8M, and now runs Icon, a human-first UGC admaker backed by Founders Fund and leaders from OpenAI and Google. Hands-on across product and front-end engineering, Kennan has contributed React UI work to high-profile projects like Pinterest’s Gestalt design system. He blends competitive grit—once ranked Top 200 in North American League of Legends—with pragmatic productization, having turned low-cost creative workflows into an 8-in-1 Admaker platform. Based in New York, he’s a college dropout who leverages rapid iteration and design-led engineering to deliver profitable, scalable consumer marketing products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
S20 (solo founder), S20 (solo founder) at Y CombinatorTransfer Dropout, Transfer Dropout at Columbia University
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
react10
ui-components10
css8
html7
jestjs6
jes6
jtest6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 20 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kennan primarily contributed to the development of React UI components, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the Pinterest design system, Gestalt. They implemented new features such as the `onBlur` prop for `SearchField` and the `onClick` prop for `Checkbox`. Additionally, the user addressed layout and rendering issues, including fixing a Safari 9-specific overlap in `Toast` and hardcoding height in `SelectList`. The user also added new icons to the system.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
kennandavison/editor-dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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