Hi, I'm Kieran Snyder
AI, data, teams, and leadership. Work in public.
My bio
Kieran Snyder is the Founder of nerd processor. She is a tech executive and renowned expert on team communication and management. After earning her PhD in linguistics at Penn, Kieran spent a decade creating the world’s most impactful language products as a product and engineering leader at Microsoft and Amazon.
In 2014, she co-founded Textio, a software company that helps organizations write fair and unbiased feedback. She served as the company's CEO for nine years and is currently Chief Scientist Emeritus. Among numerous leadership accolades, she was Geekwire's CEO of the Year in 2021. In 2023, she was invited to brief Congress on bias in AI and she was named to the Forbes Future of Work 50.
She currently serves on the boards of Textio, ConvertKit, and Atlas AI. Her work has appeared in Fortune, The New York Times, Forbes, Slate, and the Washington Post.
What is nerd processor?
If you know me, you know that words are my lens on the world. I am a linguist, a writer, a talker, a relator of stories.
When I was an academic linguist, I was a literal word processor. Later on, I spent much of my tech career building software word processors.
And let's face it: I am a bit of a nerd. A nerd who loves word play!
What is this photography?
Long ago, I had a blog where I drew a comic to go with every post. I'm a better writer than visual artist, but I found big joy in drawing the comics. I'm a word person first and foremost, but we all have multiple dimensions.
A few years ago, I started including my photography in my articles. I carry that forward here. All the pictures on this site are mine or my husband's!