Kurtiss Hare
Senior Software Engineer at The Nightlight Cinema
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKurtiss Hare is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable systems across startups and large platforms, currently shaping smart-home software at Deako Smart Lighting. He combines deep hands-on engineering (Netflix, playhaven CTO) with product and operational leadership, having co-founded PlayHaven and scaled The Nightlight Cinema from a monthly program into a full-time cultural venue. Based in Seattle but rooted in Cleveland and San Francisco, he blends engineering rigour with entrepreneurial instinct and community-focused projects like KinoArts. Comfortable across the stack, Kurtiss brings a track record of shipping production software, mentoring teams, and turning informal ventures into sustainable operations. An idiosyncratic mix of software, cinema, and left-leaning civic-mindedness informs his approach to building tech that serves people.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at GlenOak High SchoolBS in Computer Science, BS in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
packaging10
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
python9
package-manager9
aws8
dhl8
typescript8
python-packaging8
boto8
system-configuration7
microsoft7
electron7
testing7
vscode-extension7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kurtiss/shrapnel
Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:92 commits in 9 months
kurtiss/veezi
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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