Kai Curry
Chief Technology Officer at The Office of Kristian Bjornard
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Curry is a pragmatic technology leader and systems integrator with 11 years of experience designing end-to-end platforms that span marine electronics, enterprise software, and full-stack infrastructure. As CTO at Amorella and Senior Partner at Twig Marine, he pairs hands-on hardware and wiring expertise with scalable software architecture and business strategy, bridging physical systems to cloud services. He’s fluent across the stack—building backend APIs, integrations, and admin UIs—and has contributed to notable open-source projects like the Signal K server and the COVID Tracking Project website. Kai’s background includes renewable energy, Drupal-era web engineering, and founding hardware-oriented ventures, giving him a rare mix of product, operations, and low-level systems intuition. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical constraints into sustainable business models and strategic partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
English
Stackoverflow
199reputation
16kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (25)
apim10
javascript10
fetchr10
fetcher10
api10
front-end-development10
fetch10
nodejs10
react10
back-end-development9
monorepo8
webpacker8
webpack8
expressjs7
nunjucks7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
COVID19Tracking/website
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
The COVID Tracking Project website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:210 commits, 50 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kai contributed to the COVID Tracking Project website by implementing features and making improvements to the front-end and back-end. They added functionality related to state and US daily data, including formatting and display. They also made changes to the website's data retrieval process, pulling data from various APIs, and built out the individual state pages.
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SignalK/signalk-server
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
An implementation of a Signal K central server for boats.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 15 PRs, 55 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and optimizing the Signal K server's admin UI, enhancing its functionality through the introduction of buildFetchAction to streamline action code, and integrating the UI with the backend. They also addressed configuration and build processes, removing a JSON loader and incorporating the creation of packages for plugin configuration and the admin UI within the monorepo structure. Further, they updated the codebase to improve code clarity and ensure proper module resolution when the Signal K server is integrated into other projects.
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