About

Chiara Cokieng is a versatile and accomplished entrepreneur, writer, product person, operations leader, and growth marketer with over a decade of relevant experience in software startups. She has been working in globally remote and distributed teams since 2013, and her expertise in product management, Kubernetes, QA, and design has enabled her to make significant contributions to the success of her past companies, including Giant Swarm and OnFrontiers. Aside from her professional accomplishments, Chiara is also a competitive freestyle wrestler, copywriter, and management consultant. She has spoken about elite mathematics, powerlifting, and accelerated learning in MIT, NYU, UChicago, and 10+ universities, and her writing has been featured in the New York Observer. Her approach to work has even been featured as a case study in New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau’s book, Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do. Currently, Chiara is the Co-Founder of gen propel, a company that is creating a cohort-based course to help people job hunt in a new country. She is also a Product at Giant Swarm, where she helps enterprises create, scale, and use a fleet of Kubernetes clusters securely and reliably in production at scale. At OnFrontiers, she was laterally promoted to take the Product Manager role from CEO after demonstrating her ability to convey product requirements to engineers and her spidey-sense product instincts and creativity. Chiara has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Managerial Economics, with a minor in Mathematics, from the University of the Philippines. She also completed a course in Organizational Leadership at altMBA. Her unique combination of skills, experiences, and accomplishments has earned her high praise from colleagues around the world, including being described as “an animal,” “a force of nature,” and someone who “winds up having a significant effect on the course on world events.”