Richard Kasperowski – Résumé
For full details, see my complete CV.
Teaching and Training
Instructor – Harvard University – 2015-2024
CSCI E-71/S-71 Agile Software Development: author and instructor. Most recent student evaluation: 4.8/5.0, significantly higher than average.
Founding Instructor and Mentor – Boston University – 2018-2021, 2025
Spark! fellowship: founding instructor recruited to develop original curriculum; team lead for software engineering, agile software development, and high-performance teams (2018-2021); mentor (2025).
Instructor – LinkedIn Learning – 2018-present
Author and instructor: Extreme Programming and Refactoring for Great Code
Lead Mentor, Organizer – Charles River CoderDojo – 2014-present
Lead mentor and co-organizer
Teaching Assistant – Harvard University – 1997-2000
CSCI E-124 Data Structures and Algorithms
Education
Harvard University – HES
BLA cum laude, field of study Computer Science, 1996
Scrum Alliance
Professional certifications: Certified Scrum Master (2009), Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (2010), Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (2010), Certified Scrum Product Owner (2016), Certified Agile Leadership (2017), Scrum Foundations Educator (2021)
Corporate Experience
Co-founder and CTO – Alli Connect (Techstars ‘22) – 2022-present
Lead technical vision for predictive mental wellness platform serving 30+ fire and police departments with 770+ monthly active users. Responsibilities include product ownership, architecture, development, and operations. Built privacy-first platform with React Native, Micronaut, PostgreSQL, and AI-powered features. Achieved 88% therapist matching success rate and HIPAA-grade security certification.
Teacher, Coach, Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author – Richard Kasperowski | Certified Agile Team Building – 2013-present
(See description above.)
Agile Coach/Manager, Senior Software Engineering Manager – Nokia – 2010-2013
Managed and coached teams building Nokia’s consumer identity management system for 100millions users
Director of Solutions and Services, Manager of Engineering Program Management – Nellymoser – 2006-2010
Managed digital product development teams, wrote code for our bespoke full-stack mobile app’s, did product management, was liason with customers
Software Team Lead, Principal Software Engineer, Sales Engineer – CentrePath – 2003-2006
Software developer and sales engineer, building a network management tool
Consultant, Founder – Altisimo Computing – 1997-2004
Founder and consultant
CTO, Cofounder – MobiLingua – 2004
English-language-learning mobile application
Senior Software Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager – Knowledge Technologies International (formerly ICAD, acquired by Oracle and Dassault Systemes) – 1992-1997
Software developer – rules-based programming language and platform to automate mechanical engineering design
Quality Assurance Engineer, Technical Customer Support Analyst – InterSystems – 1989-1992
Software testing and coding
Quality Assurance Engineer – Spinnaker Software (acquired by broderbund) – 1988-1989
Software testing
Consulting and Product Development
Teacher, Coach, Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author – Richard Kasperowski | With Great People – 2013-present
(See description above.)
Creator – Awesome Lab – 2021-present
Technical experimentation playground built as a Deno TypeScript monorepo on DigitalOcean. Projects include PianoPlay.app (spaced repetition for piano), SonicSlam (generative AI music), VitalityBlast (health data visualization), SMS Blast (Twilio marketing), and Team Safety Scanner (psychological safety measurement).
Founder, software developer, content creator, and social media manager
Creator – cv-creator – 2022-present
Creator, software developer
Creator – SpeakSpanish – 2021-present
Software developer – Spanish speech recognition application
Consultant, Founder – Altisimo Computing – 1997-2004
(See description above.)
Investing and Innovation
Angel Investor – 2021-present
Investments focused on women and POC founders
Mentor – TechStars Boston – 2015-2018
Focused on agile software product development and high-performance team building skills
CTO, Co-Founder – MobiLingua – 2004
(See description above.)
Recent Publications
- Frecuencias diferentes, as Santos Blackwood, 2025.
- Manifesto for Online Collaboration, with Matt Barnaby, Barb Bickford, et al, 2022.
- With Great People: The Podcast for High-Performance Teams, 92 episodes of interviews and monologues exploring technical work teams, collaboration, and creativity, 2017-2022.
- Richard Kasperowski’s Blog, 107 articles on team building, innovation, creativity, and agile software development, 2008-2022.
- High-Performance Teams: The Foundations, C4Media, 2019.
- “High-Performance Team Behaviors” measurement instrument, Comparative Agility, 2018.
- Agile & Scrum Foundations Class Workbook, With Great People Publications, 2018.
- Manifesto for Greatness, with Algimantas Stancelis, Alice Ivashina, et al, 2015.
- The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, With Great People Publications, 2015.
- “Building a Connected MIDlet, part 2,” with Alex Bourgeois, Java Developers’ Journal, March 2004.
Recent Presentations
- Keynotes (all invited)
- Scrum Doesn’t Matter (And It Never Did): What Actually Builds Great Products – Global Scrum Gathering, 2026.
- High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence – Communauto internal keynote, 2023. Also keynote at Enexis internal keynote, 2023; Bosnia Agile Week, 2021; Project Management Institute, New York City, 2018.
- Teaching Agile (Or Anything Else) So It Sticks – Citizens internal keynote, 2022.
- High-Performance Teams in a Virtual World – Toronto Agile Conference, 2020.
- Awesome Teams: Games for Continuous (Extreme?) Teaming – Agile Games, 2016.
- Sessions
- From Idea → Live App: Claude Code Mob Build (Global Coding Dojo) – BU Spark! Civic Hacks Hackathon, 2026 (invited).
- Global Coding Dojo – the monthly meet-up I host, a safe place to learn and practice coding, 2024-present.
- VibeCoding with Replit – BU Spark! DS+X Hackathon, 2025 (invited).
- Technology and Officer Wellness: Leveraging AI for Early Detection – IACP, Denver, 2025 (invited).
- 6 Strings In My Head, 88 Keys In My Hands – Music & Tech Fusion Boston, 2025.
- Harnessing Data and Technology for Enhanced Wellness Programs – FDIC International, 2025.
- Zero to Live: Build and Deploy Your First App with Continuous Delivery – Civic Hacks, 2025.
- Liberando equipos de alto rendimiento – ICF Colombia, 2023 (invited).
- Teaching Agile (Or Anything Else) So It Sticks – Agile India, 2023 (invited); Agile Hartford, 2022 (invited); Agile 2021 Minimum Viable Conference, 2021 (invited); Also at Boston Area Women In Agile, 2020 (invited); Heart of England Scrum User Group, 2020 (invited); Venture Cafe, 2020 (invited); AgileCamp SF, 2019; Agile New England, 2019.
- Team Transformation Canvas: Team Building Starts With You – Agile India, 2023 and 2021 (invited).
Awards
- Nokia IMPACT Award – presented to the top ~100 of ~120,000 employees, 2012
- Nellymoser MVP – 2008
- CentrePath Customer Commitment Award – 2005
Languages
- English – native
- Spanish – C2 – to connect with people in non-English-speaking communities