Kyle Franz
Founder, CEO at Clipper
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKyle Franz is a generalist software engineer and serial founder with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, robotics platforms, and high-performance systems. Currently CEO of Clipper, he’s focused on building the world’s fastest container registry after leading platform engineering at Chef Robotics and founding Basis Robotics. He combines low-level skills (C++, ROS, Z80 hobbyist assembly) with production-grade tooling—Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, distributed systems—and a track record of dramatic performance wins (e.g., 4x CI build speedups, 13x smaller/90x faster remote updates). Kyle has shipped across domains from self-driving sensor integration and 3D simulation to game engines and robot deployments, making him adept at both diagnosing deep faults and architecting scalable systems. Based in San Francisco, he mentors teams, champions hygienic build/deployment practices, and keeps his curiosity sharp by hacking Game Boy Color games in spare time.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (97)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
A-t48/Yukari
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
botpythoncytubecytube-bot
zig-for/snfm
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Super Nintendo File Manager
Contributions:7 releases, 139 commits, 26 PRs in 5 months
homebrewsuper-nintendofile-managernintendo
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