Kirk Franzen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO at Cargo Chief, with over a decade of experience building product-driven engineering teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines hands-on Java and Python development with strategic product ownership to deliver logistics and freight-matching solutions at scale. Since taking the engineering helm in 2017 he has guided cross-functional teams from prototype to production, balancing rapid iteration with operational reliability. A Texas A&M computer science graduate, Kirk brings an operator’s mindset to startup growth—equally comfortable in the codebase as in shaping product direction—and maintains an active developer perspective through ongoing contributions on GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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