Mark Kropf
Founder & CEO at Polyguard
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMark Kropf is a founder and CEO with 13+ years building and scaling enterprise technology organizations across Google Cloud, Pivotal, and Genius Sports, where he led multi-continent engineering, infrastructure, security, and M&A integration. He specializes in putting agentic AI into production—shipping systems using Claude and contributing to early Gemini work—while operationalizing them for regulated, high-stakes environments like the NFL and Premier League. Mark blends board-level strategy with hands-on engineering, often moving from AI transformation presentations to implementing pull requests himself. As founder of Rensei he’s now focused on safe orchestration and governance for fleets of AI agents, bringing cryptographic audit trails and vendor-neutral policy enforcement to regulated industries. He also invests and advises startups at the intersection of AI safety, creator tools, and deepfake defense, signaling a practical interest in real-world trust and monetization models. Based in New York, he is energized by the convergence of agentic AI and enterprise-grade operational discipline.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of AkronBS International Business, BS International Business at Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Japanese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (116)
ruby10
runc10
cart10
javascript10
continuous-delivery10
elm10
containerd10
api10
payload10
currency10
spree10
continuous-integration10
rails10
react-typescript10
marketplace10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MarkKropf/spooky
Apr 2015 - May 2022
Controlling lights spookily fast (spukhafte Fernwirkung) using nodejs.
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 1 month
javascriptnodejslightscontrolling
MarkKropf/cf-local-docker
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 29 days
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