Jeff Kunkle
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Grist Mill Exchange
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolJeff Kunkle is a seasoned engineering leader and two-time founder with over two decades of experience building and scaling software products, teams, and companies. As SVP of Engineering at Grist Mill Exchange and former Co-Founder/President of Visallo (acquired by Kensho/S&P Global), he blends hands-on backend development in Java, Python, Node.js and mobile platforms with strategic product and go-to-market leadership. He has a track record of converting services businesses into high-margin product companies, standing up API organizations to deliver ML models in production, and doubling engineering capacity to drive customer growth. Comfortable switching between coding, hiring, sales, and finance, he excels at aligning technical roadmaps with business outcomes for ambitious projects. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he leverages deep big-data and link-analysis expertise from early Hadoop/Accumulo work to inform modern cloud and analytics architectures. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic fixer who thrives on tackling messy technical and organizational problems to ship impactful software.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Systems Engineering, M.S., Systems Engineering at Virginia TechB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
Github Skills (58)
migration10
database-migration10
migration-tool10
migrate10
nodejs9
database8
docker-toolbox8
java8
laravel8
mysql8
postgresql8
visualization7
spark7
elasticsearch6
auditing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kunklejr/auditor
Sep 2012 - Jan 2020
Rails 3 auditing of your ActiveRecord model changes
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 5 months
ruby-on-railsrailsauditrubyactiverecord-model
visallo/webster
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Minimal web framework, implemented in Java, resembling node.js+express.
Contributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
node-jsjavascriptexpressexpress-jsnodejs
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