Summary
Kyle Zappitell is a founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building consumer-facing games, robot interfaces, and platform software from San Francisco. He led Figure’s Robot Interfaces team and shipped core robot control, conversational face displays, and fleet management tooling, after earlier work at Microsoft on the Xbox PC app and ML-driven service reliability. As founder and CEO of bash.gg he raised venture funding, launched multiple social gaming products with hundreds of thousands of users, and even prototyped an NFT vending machine in NYC before winding the company down. Comfortable toggling between low-level systems, ML, and product-driven frontend work, he blends philosophical training from the University of Michigan with practical startup grit and a taste for creative, experiential products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at University of Michigan
a16z speedrun
Sciences Po
International Baccalaureate
English, Spanish, French