Sean Keppler

About

Previously supported capital raising at Space Ocean Corp by securing several thousand dollars in grant funding and building investor-readiness/outreach materials. Has early exposure to VC/studio/accelerator meetings and articulates nuanced differences in their incentives and time horizons. Interested in refining skills as an early-stage CTO and is highly committed to entrepreneurship.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Secured several thousand dollars in grant funding via grant applications
• Strong upfront research approach to aligning proposals with grant provider stipulations
• Understands investor vs. accelerator/studio expectations and ROI/time-horizon differences
• Evaluates opportunities using market fit plus rigor/metrics (not just vision)

Reference Highlights

• Full ownership of large-scale projects
• Strong technical leadership; go-to for guidance and direction
• Keeps plans on track and drives execution
• Champions technical progress
• Realistic, scope-conscious planning and outlook
• Detail-oriented and thorough in design scrutiny
• Able to deliver MVP from concept within a designated timeframe
• Strong communication up and down the leadership chain
• Professional and successful handling of conflicts
• Effective at leading teams through major pivots to meet customer needs
• Pivotal contributions to successful project outcomes
• Strong people leader (oversaw 30–40 engineers)
• Takes end-to-end ownership and follows through to completion
• Effective in highly ambiguous, zero-to-one environments
• Instrumental in landing major agreements and partnerships
• Trusted liaison to executive leadership in supervisor’s absence
• Strong external-facing communicator with customers and suppliers
• Adaptable; able to pivot designs quickly to meet customer needs
• Collaborative partner who maintains strong supplier relationships during pivots
• Drives iterative design toward customer needs
• Successful at moving concepts from early idea to investor-ready design
• Contributed to securing LOIs and agreements (including with JPL)
• Effective at building budgets for programs
• Helped build and scale the engineering team
• Successful in developing university collaborations (e.g., Texas A&M)
• excellent ownership mentality
• strong team builder
• effective engineering leader
• adaptable; able to pivot quickly
• delivers under aggressive timelines (6-week baseline)
• aligns technical direction with customer/market needs
• highly recommended by supervisor
• great engineer