Todd Nienkerk
Owner, Co-Founder, And Chair at The Future of Content Podcast
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Nienkerk is a veteran web entrepreneur and founder who has spent 25+ years building award-winning digital experiences and leading Four Kitchens from a four-person startup to a multinational agency focused on AI, content management, and web platforms for higher education. He combines design, development, media, and psychology to shape human-centered systems—work that helped earn an Emmy and partnerships with institutions like Yale, The Economist, and NBC. A prolific conference speaker and open-source contributor (especially in the Drupal ecosystem), Todd balances hands-on technical leadership with strategic M&A and nearshore expansion that grew revenue to nearly $8M. He hosts The Future of Content podcast and brings a publisher’s sensibility to platform problems, turning complex content workflows into scalable, usable products. Based in Austin, he’s as likely to obsess over UX and conversational AI as he is about obscure sci‑fi and rare LEGO—evidence of a creative curiosity that fuels his work.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology German minor, BA Psychology German minor at The University of Texas at Austin
German, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
turnip9
kitchen8
scrum6
horizon6
swiftui6
swift5
drupal5
php4
ios4
react4
cli3
docker3
hipchat2
javascript1
emoji1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fourkitchens/norfps
Feb 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 6 months
fourkitchens/train-rwd
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:27 commits in 5 months
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