Kendall Clark
Founder & CEO at Pentad Labs
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolKendall Clark is a founder and strategic advisor with 13 years of leadership building enterprise knowledge graph technology and commercial products, most notably as Founder & CEO of Stardog and earlier Complexible. Based in Washington, D.C., Kendall blends deep technical roots—working on SGML, XML, SPARQL and W3C standards—with practical product and go-to-market experience across startup life cycles. He has a strong editorial and research background from O’Reilly’s XML.com and university-affiliated standards work, which informs his ability to translate complex semantic tech into customer value. Known for turning research-grade ideas into robust commercial platforms, he brings a rare mix of engineering, publishing, and academic sensibility. Outside of work he foregrounds family in his public profile, signaling a founder who balances technical ambition with grounded priorities.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (ABD), religious studies, PhD (ABD), religious studies at Southern Methodist University
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Github Skills (63)
stardog10
reasoner10
ontology10
owl10
graph-database9
java9
emacs9
knowledge-graph9
vim9
sparql9
doc8
spacemacs8
inference8
journal7
converter7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stardog-union/stardog-docs
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Stardog Docs
Contributions:15 PRs, 280 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
stardog
stardog-union/stardog-blog
Feb 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:178 commits, 5 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 3 months
stardogknowledge-graphowlgraph-databasesparql
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