Kenny Katzgrau
Founder & CEO at Red Bank Green
Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Katzgrau is a founder and CEO with 16 years of hands-on software and product experience who builds companies, teams, and practical technology that serve local publishers and businesses. He founded Broadstreet, an alternative ad management platform positioned to help local and B2B publishers compete with Google and Facebook, and runs redbankgreen.com, a long-running hyperlocal news site he acquired to deepen community impact. A seasoned full‑stack engineer by training, Kenny has delivered systems at organizations from Yahoo! and Mozilla to Automattic and NBC Universal, with deep familiarity in ad tech, REST APIs, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Node, and frontend frameworks. He combines strategic vision with relentless execution—treating entrepreneurship as his sport—and is known for translating big problems into focused product and team outcomes. Based in Red Bank, NJ, he balances sustained technical curiosity with practical business-building, having moved between freelance engineering, corporate roles, and founding a product company that customers praise for ROI. An habitual thinker and builder, he leverages both community journalism and ad tech to create resilient local media businesses.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Applied Math, BS Computer Science Applied Math at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (55)
web-components10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
logging10
javascript9
wordpress9
vue9
wordpress-api9
codeigniter9
frontend9
mozilla8
jumpstart8
progressive8
spark8
ignite7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
katzgrau/wp-notfound-org
Sep 2012 - Sep 2021
A Wordpress plugin that turns your 404 "not found" error into a page devoted to helping find missing children.
Contributions:5 reviews, 15 commits, 1 PR in 9 years 1 month
wordpress-apiwordpressmissingturnserror
katzgrau/jerry-picker
Jun 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
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