Joan Concilio and Kaitlyn Concilio are the dynamic duo who run Technical Penguins, a woman-owned business based in the western United States. The name comes from the nonprofit we co-founded, Pengins for Everyone, which gives free stuffed penguins to those in need, and our general love of these adorkable little birds.
Kait (left) and Joan (right), along with Scoops, Hoogerheide, Fiona and Nixie.
Technical Penguins is an economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business.
Kaitlyn Concilio
Co-owner & principal technical consultant
Kait has been coding websites since the Y2K bug was a real concern, and still remembers dialing into the library computer via terminal to reserve books. She primarily does development and design. In addition to writing software, both in-house and as a consultant, she’s previously worked in print and digital design for newspapers. When not on the computer, she enjoys reading and playing basketball.
Joan Concilio
Co-owner & principal consultant
Nothing makes Joan happier than a well-organized system or process. Joan focuses on workflow analysis, data design, and content writing and editing, with a solid dose of front-end development for funsies. Joan has worked in web development, design and management since 1999 in the journalism, higher education, personal finance and homeschooling spaces – and is one of those weird tech people who likes non-computer hobbies, like reading physical media, kayaking, practicing martial arts and making abstract art. Joan’s hair is rarely the same color two months in a row.
Link Pengin
Web Admiral
Link is one of our many penguins (we call them “pengins”), and among the most … we’ll say “insistent.” She’s a web developer who helped with this site as well as Pengins for Everyone. She insists all her titles (there are many) include “admiral,” because “it’s higher than a captain.” In her spare time, she enjoys hugs.
