Arvid Kahl
CEO at The Bootstrapped Founder
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolArvid Kahl is a seasoned software entrepreneur and CEO with 13 years of hands-on experience in bootstrapped startups. He co-founded and sold FeedbackPanda, a profitable EdTech SaaS for online teachers, to SureSwift Capital in 2019, exemplifying revenue-driven growth without external funding. Now he leads Podscan as CEO, a real-time media monitoring and full-text search platform that surfaces podcast keyword mentions as soon as episodes drop. An active writer and speaker, he runs The Bootstrapped Founder and has published Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur to share practical lessons on startups, engineering, and mental health. He holds a unique blend of computer science and political science training from TU Dresden and Humboldt University, and he remains a hands-on polyglot coder who speaks at conferences and builds products end-to-end from frontend to backend. Based in Old Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a love of teaching others and turning ambitious ideas into scalable software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
852reputation
86kreached
17answers
14questions
Github Skills (129)
windows10
terraform10
infrastructure10
vuejs210
orchestration10
javascript10
openlibrary10
html10
js10
azure10
bootstrapper10
electron10
v810
vue10
development-environment10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
arvidkahl/node-spark
Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
a weblink-based imageboard that allows adding stories to images
Contributions:58 commits in 5 months
imageboardweblinkdocker
FeedbackPanda/fbp-launcher-releases
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:59 releases, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
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