Kenny Lugo
Operational Polymath
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Lugo is an operational polymath and product-focused engineering leader with 11 years building full-stack web, mobile, and ML-driven products from Palo Alto. He’s co-founded startups, led growth and monetization at Speechify—boosting visit-to-paid conversion by over 50%—and recently helped a stealth startup secure $1M pre-seed while owning engineering, product, and programmatic advertising. Comfortable shipping end-to-end, Kenny pairs hands-on iOS/Python development (current work at Apple-level organizations and xAI) with expertise training models and running high-velocity CRO experiments. He has launched multiple mobile SaaS products that together generated recurring revenue and closed early B2B deals personally, demonstrating both technical craft and GTM instincts. Notably, his background blends deep product ops and analytics (dashboards, systems, automations) with frontline growth execution, making him effective at converting insights into revenue-driving features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CS50 Computer Science, CS50 Computer Science at Harvard UniversityComputer Science & Product Development, Computer Science & Product Development at Make School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (55)
ios10
swift10
picture-in-picture9
objective-c9
ipa9
iphone9
rubber-ducky9
popcorn9
rubber9
macos9
data-structures9
tinder8
react8
cocoapods8
xcode8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kennylugo/iphone-emulator
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:193 commits, 3 PRs, 166 pushes in 1 year 6 months
technologiesiosreverse-engineeredweb-technologiesrecreated
kennylugo/OSXRubberDucky
Jul 2016 - May 2017
🐥 Digital Rubber Ducky Extension for Mac
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
rubber-duckymacduckyrubbermacos
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