Kingston Duffie
Founder And CEO at Navu
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKingston Duffie is a serial founder and CEO with 11+ years of focused startup leadership and a 30+ year engineering pedigree building networking and software companies from concept to exit. He has founded four Silicon Valley startups, achieving two acquisitions, one asset sale, and an IPO, and now leads Navu working on B2B conversion optimization. Kingston’s playbook blends technical depth—as a former CTO and engineering director—with a talent for assembling complementary teams to turn novel technology ideas into market-ready products. His ventures span networking hardware, testing ISVs, cloud services, and engagement analytics, reflecting an ability to pivot across domains while retaining system-level rigor. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs hands-on product strategy with experience raising venture capital and navigating exits. Less obvious: he repeatedly builds companies around a single new technical insight and then scales them through recruiting and operational execution rather than incremental feature growth.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Engineering Physics, BSc Engineering Physics at Queen's UniversityMasters Electrical Engineering, Masters Electrical Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (51)
search-engine10
javascript10
opensearch10
type-check10
typescript10
java10
typechecker10
restful10
superset10
elasticsearch10
testing9
chrome-extension9
api9
firefox9
chrome9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GuildNetwork/guild-server
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Main Guild application server
Contributions:11 releases, 114 PRs, 5270 pushes in 2 years 1 month
reacttypescriptguildapplication-server
ChannelsNetwork/channels-server
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:199 PRs, 1100 pushes, 233 branches in 1 year
social-networkchannelsnodejs
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