Summary
Kurt Ruppel is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building product-driven engineering teams and identity/verification infrastructure in the Bay Area. As Co-Founder of Middesk, he combines modern tooling and cloud-native practices to help businesses identify, verify, and monitor customers, backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia and Accel. Previously he led multiple engineering teams at Checkr focused on improving customer experience and shipped production software at Zendesk and earlier startups. With a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, he brings a human-centered approach to complex systems design and a knack for distilling what’s core to a business at a glance. An operator-turned-founder, he blends hands-on technical execution with strategic product sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Cognitive Science, B.A., Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley