Kristofer Younger
Director Of Education
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristofer Younger is a seasoned software leader, founder and educator with 30+ years of hands-on engineering and 11 years focused on adult technical education, currently directing AI-infused curriculum and instructor teams at Zip Code Wilmington. He blends product-stage startup experience—building mobile, cloud and blockchain-backed apps like Tioga Digital and board portal Boardnotebook.com—with deep full‑stack fluency in Python/Django, Go, Java/Spring, iOS/Swift and ML tooling. Kristofer is equally at home sketching curriculum for data engineering and teaching Spark/Kafka/Airflow as he is prototyping MVPs himself, often taking on security, legal and legislative dimensions of product work. Known for turning ambiguous problems into practical, production-ready systems, he pairs inventive thinking with a bias toward shipping. Based in Durham, NC, he brings a rare mix of decades-long systems credibility (Netscape, NeXT, Sun) and modern AI-driven instructional design that helps non‑traditional learners and corporate partners quickly adopt new tooling.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (181)
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realm9
gemma9
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llm9
hmac9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ZipCodeCore/DiceyLab
Feb 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:37 PRs, 1 push, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
kristofer/MrsBeasley
Nov 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
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