# Kevin Koperski (@kk.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/kk.social
Headline: Currently Between Headlines

## About

Author, designer, software developer, humanist, technologist, filmmaker, gamer, entrepreneur, aspiring pilot, reader, book lover, Lego fan, and on and on and on.

## Career

- **Founder at Streetlamp Media** (Mar 2021 - Present)
- **Co-Founder at Amulet Studios** (Mar 2021 - Jun 2025)
- **Co-Founder, Product & Engineering at When** (Jul 2020 - Dec 2022)
- **Head of Product, Multifamily at Expedia Group** (Oct 2018 - May 2020)
  Worked here as a result of Expedia Group acquiring my startup, ApartmentJet. Helped establish Expedia Group Multifamily Services. Sadly, we were part of the Covid cuts.
- **Co-Founder, CTO at Apartmentjet** (Oct 2016 - Oct 2018)
  Acquired by Expedia Group 18 months after we launched.
- **Chief Experience Officer at Pongworks** (Jul 2015 - Oct 2016)
- **Co-Founder, Product & Engineering at Dander** (Apr 2015 - Jul 2016)
  Dander was a mobile app that allowed users to donate to specific pets at animal shelters. We shut it down after a year for lack of traction. But it taught us a bunch for our next startup.
- **Sr. Director of Product Design and Innovation at RealPage** (Apr 2014 - Mar 2015)
  Full-time
  Worked as a result of RealPage acquiring a previous startup (Yield Technologies). Departed when Realpage shut down our Chicago office.
- **Vice President Product Innovation and Design at yield technologies, Inc** (Feb 2007 - Feb 2013)
  Started as .NET full stack developer and product designer. Employee number 2. Helped lead it to a couple million ARR and an acquisition by RealPage.
- **At-Home Parent at My Kids** (Sep 2002 - Sep 2006)
  Put the career on hold while home with my kids.  Quite the challenge, to be honest, but an awesome experience. Also wrote a successful blog about at-home parenting and stay-at-home dads called The Daily Writer.
- **Developer/Editor/Production Assistant at CDI** (Sep 2000 - Sep 2002)
  Did a little bit of everything for a small 3D effects shop and film production company.  Helped design and develop various websites. Set up shared networks for file transfers between animator machines and editing machines.  Standard and hi-definition digital video editing with Sony Vegas and AVID. Wrote short film scripts for proposed projects.  Production assistant on two feature length productions.  Performed various creative duties.
- **HRIT / HRIS Developer at AT&T** (Jun 1998 - Dec 2000)
  Served primarily as an Intranet developer, designing and building a corporate Intranet that served 26,000 employees. Designed and developed the front end of a employee job requisition application that allowed all managers to submit hiring requests to HR, track approvals through various stages, and ultimately report headcount. Won an AT&T Circle of Excellence award for designing and developing a software solution that allowed HR to increase offer letter processing speed by over 300% and thereby reduce headcount.

## Publications

- Am I Dropping a Leaflet? (May 2026)
- Amontillado — Streetlamp Press (Nov 2012) https://kevinkoperski.com/project/amontillado

## Education

- **University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** — BA, Rhetoric, History (Aug 1993 - Jan 1999)
  Activities & Societies: Men's Gymnastics.

## Links

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kevinkoperski
- Website: https://www.kevinkoperski.com