Kyle Venn
CEO, Yik Yak & Sidechat
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Venn is a product-focused software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer and creator-facing products, currently leading Yik Yak’s revival as CEO from New York. He scaled teams and shipped large-scale mobile and cross-platform systems at Vimeo—helping the company pivot to enterprise SaaS and navigate a public offering—after earlier architecting the first Vimeo Android app. As an entrepreneur he founded Vennco (Cat Facts) and ran Flower Ave LLC, demonstrating an ability to grow niche apps to six-figure user bases and monetize via modern ad channels. Kyle blends hands-on engineering (mobile, web, backend) with people leadership, hiring and growing teams from single digits to dozens while maintaining a product-first focus. He’s equally comfortable discussing design, data, and growth strategies as he is debugging playback pipelines or A/B experiments. Outside work he’s known for curiosity-driven side projects and an affinity for cat facts and movie conversations that often spark new product ideas.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Stackoverflow
6,142reputation
709kreached
139answers
10questions
android
top-5%
flutter
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
flutter-plugin10
tencent10
bottom10
saas10
nodejs10
desktop10
material-design10
windows10
terraform10
vimeo10
permission10
dart10
kubernetes10
android-api10
mobile10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
johnnyz/team2-backend
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:194 pushes in 25 days
vimeo/turnstile-android
Dec 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 11 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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