Dennis Hackethal
Founder at veritula.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Hackethal is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and researching artificial general intelligence from San Francisco. He blends hands‑on expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and modern deployment practices with a history of senior web development at Apple and startup CTO experience in ticketing and security platforms. Since 2019 he has combined freelance engineering with independent AGI research, authoring books and hosting a podcast that explore intelligence and creativity. He also translated David Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity into German, reflecting a rare combination of technical skill and deep philosophical engagement. Known for shipping production systems and coordinating releases at scale, he now leads veritula.com, applying both entrepreneurial drive and long-form thinking to hard AI and web problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout Computer Science and Economics, Dropout Computer Science and Economics at Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementDropout Philosophy, Dropout Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
German, English, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (5)
material-design4
ruby-on-rails2
ruby2
rails2
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sf-wdi-14/notes
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Student facing notes, weekly schedules, assignments and lectures
Contributions:243 commits, 1 PR, 96 pushes in 5 months
schedulesnotes
sf-wdi-17/notes
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:202 commits, 9 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 month
material-design
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