Judd Keppel
Chief Technology Officer at Turbofish
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJudd Keppel is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 13 years of hands-on engineering and executive experience, currently serving as CTO of Turbofish in Austin. He blends deep computer engineering roots (MS, Case Western Reserve/Portland State) with practical startup grit from founding SEND Inc. and leading tech at New Car City. Judd is comfortable both architecting backend systems and shipping production-grade infrastructure, exemplified by contributions to the lotion blockchain project where he improved transaction encoding, ABCI server implementation, and error handling. He’s driven by a curiosity for building languages and infrastructure aimed at safe, ego-free general AI, pairing research-minded thinking with pragmatic product delivery. Known for refactoring complex systems and updating critical dependencies, he brings a steady, systems-first approach to ambitious technical problems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jesuit High School Portlandscience, Computer Engineering, science, Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Portland State University
Github Skills (4)
blockchain10
json9
testing8
go7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
keppel/lotion
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
✨ Smooth, easy blockchain apps ✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:491 commits, 116 PRs, 267 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Judd primarily contributed to the core logic and architecture of the blockchain application. Their work focused on refactoring and improving the transaction (tx) encoding process, the ABCI server implementation, and the query mechanism. They also updated dependencies to a newer version of Tendermint and implemented error handling, including detailed error messaging.
blockchainlotionjslotiontendermintcosmos
nomic-io/nomic-testnet
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Proof-of-stake Bitcoin sidechain example
Contributions:184 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
bitcoin
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