Summary
Kaelan Cooter is a Lead Software Engineer based in Boston with a 12-year career focused on front-end engineering, developer tooling, and build systems. After rising through engineering roles at HubSpot, Drift, and PayPal, he’s led Frontend and DevTools efforts at LogRocket since 2017 and now heads engineering there. He brings deep practical experience modernizing legacy stacks (including Coffeescript-to-ES6 migrations) and building developer-facing tooling that scales across product teams. Colleagues know him as an email-first communicator who prefers deliberate, asynchronous collaboration. Outside of work he signals a playful, code-centric mindset with a concise GitHub bio hinting at a pragmatic, person-centered approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Northeastern University