Rick Manelius
Principal at SoundPost Media
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRick Manelius is a startup CXO and AI Training Fellow with 13 years of experience turning struggling teams and products into sustainable businesses, having led multiple turnarounds that now generate roughly $20M/year in aggregate revenue. He blends hands-on technical leadership—from building award-winning NFT hardware and multi-chain provenance software at Atomic Form to scaling web and mobile platforms—with executive-level operations, fundraising, and product strategy. A Techstars All-Star mentor and author of Save Your Startup, he codifies hard-won playbooks for founders and has coached 200+ leaders on hiring, fundraising, and resourceful execution. Trained as an MIT PhD in Materials Science, Rick uniquely applies rigorous research thinking to product discovery and validated learning, running 100+ customer interviews to pivot business models. He’s actively advising AI startups and taking fractional CXO roles where tech, high-growth strategy, and leadership intersect.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
481reputation
44kreached
5answers
0questions
image
top-5%
facebook
top-5%
Github Skills (116)
moodle10
windows10
web-development10
backdrop10
ddev10
wordpress10
linux10
laravel10
magento10
typo310
mariadb10
macos10
nodejs10
credit10
drupal10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DrupalSecurityTeam/drupalpcicompliance
May 2013 - May 2018
Official github repo for the Drupal PCI compliance white paper.
Contributions:91 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years
drupal
web3standards/web3metadata
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
web3metadata
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
ethereumweb3
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.