Henry Koehler

Koehler was raised in suburban New Jersey. As a child, he enjoyed playing the guitar, Scrabble, and Age of Empires. After attending college in New York, he moved to the city full time, where he was a founding member of the band Personal Space. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his fiance.

In 2019, he attended the Flatiron School for software engineering.

Koehler works primarily with React and Node with Typescript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and Rust. He also has professional experience with Python, Django, Kubernetes, and Docker.

He was the first hire at Politics Rewired, a cooperatively run political tech startup; joining co-founders Ben Packer and Ben Chrobot in October, 2019. He has extensive full stack contributions to two products that the company offered. Assemble, a postgres-backed Airtable competitor, and Spoke Rewired, an app-to-peer texting tool.

In addition to his technical contributions, Koehler was an integral part of establishing and scaling the company. He served as the Membership Secretary, founded and chaired the Social committee, and held core administrative responsibilitiies as well.

In the summer of 2023, Koehler conceived of WordSalad, a daily word game. Technical work began in September, 2023, and the game was deployed on January 2nd, 2024.

In February, 2024, he began contract work for a European-based AI startup that focuses on data privacy.