Kurtis Welch
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorKurtis Welch is a seasoned technology founder and CEO based in Austin, Texas, blending hands-on software engineering with strategic leadership across AI and scalable platforms. He currently leads Recursive AI as Founder/CEO, applying AI to capture expert knowledge and teaching software engineers meta-engineering to build AI agents that amplify productivity. He also mentors developers as a self-employed Meta-Engineering Instructor, helping teams design personalized AI tools and workflows to achieve 10x speed. His entrepreneurial track record includes ZenSales (SlingShop), which grew to 10k+ customers and $1M ARR before selling to Ship.com in 2019, and MCPVP, a large-scale gaming venture with millions of players. Earlier leadership roles include CTO at STAT Recovery Services and product initiatives such as Storymancer.ai at Uthentic, Inc., showcasing cross-domain product leadership from enterprise to consumer tech. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the SuperPuTTY Windows SSH client by tightening security with TLS 1.2 and improving reliability and configurability.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
c-sharp10
ssh10
netframework9
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xml7
gmail6
e-mail6
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google-chrome6
bootstrap-56
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jimradford/superputty
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
The SuperPuTTY Window Manager for putty sessions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kurtis made several contributions to SuperPutty, a Windows-based SSH client. These changes included fixing a bug related to the SENDLINE command, enhancing the application's functionality by allowing URL specification in the SPSL script field, and updating the session configuration to allow referencing external session configuration files. Furthermore, they made improvements related to security by specifying TLS 1.2 on program startup and refactored code for exception handling, improving the application's robustness.
puttysshwindowssh-clientc-sharp
hclewk/ShareX
Apr 2017 - Nov 2024
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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