Kevin Wiggen
Chief Technology Officer at Independent
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Wiggen is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nearly three decades of experience leading product, engineering, and cloud transformations for education-focused technology. He has scaled systems and organizations from startup to enterprise—founding and exiting Xythos, architecting Blackboard’s cloud migration, and driving Microsoft Education’s shift to Azure and AI that reached hundreds of millions of users. Known for blending product vision with operational rigor, he has delivered massive cost savings, led SOC/privacy-compliant SaaS expansions, and built global communities of institutions to advance data and analytics in education. Currently steering AI-driven EdTech at Atypical AI while advising startups and VCs, he pairs hands-on technical judgment with strategic M&A and integration experience. A world traveler who once backpacked with an early iPhone, he brings a practical, user-centered perspective to building responsible, child-safe AI in learning products.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (13)
bots7
bot-framework6
uwp6
exchange6
wpf6
android6
flutter5
xaml5
ios5
xamarin5
adaptive-cards5
windows5
windows-uwp4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/O365-EDU-Tools
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
O365 Education tools and scripts repository
Contributions:40 commits, 8 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 4 months
o365
kwiggen/TeamsBot
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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