Kurt Ruppel
Co-Founder at Middesk
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt 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
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Github Skills (200)
xmlhttprequest10
authentication10
mvc10
hadoop10
sms10
ruby10
declarative10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
sql-query10
javascript10
big-data10
verify10
sql10
html10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kruppel/check-engines
Jun 2015 - Oct 2022
Utility to verify that engine versions (node, npm, iojs, yarn) satisfy semver constraints specified in package.json.
Contributions:1 review, 39 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 5 months
yarnpackage-jsonsemversatisfynpm-cli
kencheeto/triage
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 3 PRs, 48 pushes in 21 days
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