Kris Ciccarello
Partner at K2 Venture Partners
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Ciccarello is a veteran software leader and founding partner at K2 Venture Partners who blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to take startups from zero to one. Over 12+ years he’s co-founded and led multiple companies—including Wisr, a student engagement platform acquired by EAB with ~100 university partners and 500k active users—then scaled engineering as Managing Director at EAB. A lifelong coder who began hacking in the early ’90s, Kris has deep backend experience (including contributions to the native Node Git bindings in nodegit) and a track record of shipping versioned, collaborative SaaS products like Beegit. He excels at bootstrapping, rapid product-market fit sprints, and pragmatic technical leadership for early-stage ventures. Based in Cleveland, he combines entrepreneurial grit with studio-style execution to help teams turn bold ideas into market-ready products.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
St. Edward High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Bowling Green State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Kent State University
Github Skills (9)
libgit2sharp10
git10
nodejs10
libgit210
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
javascript9
testing8
electron4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nodegit/nodegit
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Native Node bindings to Git.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on enhancing the `nodegit` library's functionality by modifying existing methods and adding new features. Their work included making arguments optional in various functions, addressing memory issues in diff operations, and fixing a bug related to the commit diff. They also updated test files to reflect the code changes, contributing to the project's test suite. The changes suggest an understanding of the underlying libgit2 bindings.
electronwindowsjavascriptlibgit2c-plus-plus
kmctown/Must-Have-CLI-Tools
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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