Summary
Rich Staats is a founder and full-stack software professional with over a decade of experience building web products and on-demand development services for creative agencies from Denver. He blends design sensibility with engineering rigor, moving fluidly between front-end experience work and backend systems while also owning technical marketing strategies like SEO, content, and paid acquisition. As the long-running founder of Secret Stache and a former founding partner at TheDropp, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with hands-on delivery of product and marketing features. Known for approaching problems at the intersection of the creative and the practical, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that surfaces subtle user and growth opportunities often missed by pure engineers.
12 years of coding experience
Rutgers University