Kieran Klaassen
GM Of Cora EIR at DraftKit
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolKieran Klaassen is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling teams to deliver robust SaaS solutions. Currently GM of Cora and Founder of DraftKit, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product vision to align technical roadmaps with customer outcomes. An early adopter and practitioner of applied LLM and AI integrations, he drives innovation that enhances user experience and operational efficiency. His background spans multiple startups—from co-founding Occasion and Vinebase to technical leadership at WizeHire—demonstrating repeated success in turning ideas into production systems. Trained as a classical composer, he brings a creative, systems-oriented approach to engineering and product design that often yields elegant technical and UX solutions. Based in San Diego, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a knack for fostering collaborative, high-performing teams.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Orchestration, Certificate Orchestration at Berklee College of MusicBachelor of Arts - BA Classical Composition, Bachelor of Arts - BA Classical Composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French, Albanian
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Github Skills (200)
angular-template10
administration10
mercury-editor10
ruby10
activeadmin10
netsuite10
mercury10
ruby-on-rails10
rails10
npm10
activeresource10
stripe10
braintree10
google-pay10
arbre10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kieranklaassen/moneytree
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
A powerful, simple, and extendable payment engine for rails, centered around transactional payments. 💵 🌴
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year
paymentstransactionalrailshotel-bookingpayment-gateway
Vinebase/wine-knowledge
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
This is an open-source repository to collect & share the world's wine knowledge
Contributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
winecollectshareknowledge
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