Michael Rispoli
Co-Founder & CTO at Cause of a Kind
East Meadow, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rispoli is a creative technologist and serial CTO with 15+ years of software experience who co-founded Cause of a Kind and currently leads product and engineering across Web2/Web3, AI-driven tax incentive tooling, and immersive experiential tech. He excels at turning ambiguous problems into market-ready products under tight deadlines, blending product design, engineering, and UX to ship high-quality solutions quickly. His background spans startup and agency leadership—from architecting a funded marketplace as a fractional CTO to leading engineering at The Knot Worldwide—bringing both hands-on coding and strategic roadmap expertise. Notably, he pairs a geography/geology degree and GIS experience with formal UX training, a combination that informs his spatial thinking in immersive and AI-enabled product work. Based in East Meadow, NY, he thrives at the intersection of art, data, and technology to solve mission-driven business challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Geography, Geology, BA, Geography, Geology at State University of New York at New PaltzUX Design, UX Design at Designlab
Spanish
Github Skills (130)
browser10
nextjs10
react10
javascript9
gatsby9
compiler9
hybrid9
graphql9
static-site-generator9
typescript9
fastest9
react-framework8
storybook8
frontend8
vercel8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mrispoli24/express-nextjs-boilerplate
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Express + NextJS + Contentful boilerplate setup. Out of the box support for server side rendering, clean url's and a best in class headless cms integration with Contentful.
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
cmspayloadcmsclean-urlexpressserver-side
mrispoli24/mrispoli24.github.io
Mar 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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