Creighton Kirkendall
Chief Technology Officer Chief Product Officer at Blue Manta Consulting LLC
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCreighton Kirkendall is a seasoned technology leader and product executive with over 30 years building enterprise applications and more than 27 years in executive, architect, and team-lead roles. He combines deep hands-on craftsmanship in JVM and functional languages—Java, Clojure/ClojureScript, Scala—with broad familiarity across systems languages and tooling, allowing him to bridge legacy enterprise stacks and modern functional architectures. As CTO/CPO at Veritas Automata and previously Director of Product Engineering at RevenueWell and VP/Principal Architect at Guaranteed Rate, he has led cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, production-grade systems. He mentors engineers to grow both technical and product thinking, and contributes to open-source learning projects like 4clojure, where he improved backend authentication, validation, and performance. Trained with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MBA in Finance, he brings analytical rigor to product strategy and technical decision-making. Based in Cincinnati, Creighton favors practical, test-driven improvements that make large systems more maintainable and performant.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at University of CincinnatiBS Mathematics and BS Computer Science, BS Mathematics and BS Computer Science at Wright State University
Github Skills (10)
clojure10
mongodb10
clojure-cli10
mongodb-database10
testing9
user-authentication9
authentication9
compojure8
indexing8
indexer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
4clojure/4clojure
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
An interactive problem website for learning Clojure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Creighton primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the 4clojure project, focusing on user authentication, settings management, and registration. Their work involved implementing email validation and duplicate detection, as well as adding indexing to the database for improved performance. They also introduced test cases to ensure the robustness of these functionalities, including the registration and settings update processes.
clojure
ckirkendall/haskell-lisp-tutorial
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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