Reinhard Ekl
COO & Co-Founder at Hyper
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReinhard Ekl is a mission-driven product and operations leader with 11 years scaling technology ventures that improve emergency services, healthcare, and public safety; he has repeatedly taken organizations from under 10 to 100+ employees while designing and shipping software used in thousands of 9-1-1 centers, EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. As a serial operator and co-founder now serving as COO at Hyper and running Reinsoft consulting, he blends executive strategy with hands-on product work across complex, regulated systems such as real-time location, mapping, CAD, and bi-directional EHR integrations. He led product portfolios with $100M+ ARR and drove RapidDeploy’s growth to a global, remote organization supporting 24x7 mission-critical operations. Trained as a paramedic with frontline disaster response experience and an MBA from Stanford, he pairs domain expertise with rigorous business strategy—often anticipating responder needs by building data and workflows that surface life‑critical information before the phone even rings.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Emphasis in Entrepreneurship Leadership and Innovation / Cert in Public Mgmt. & Social Innovation, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Emphasis in Entrepreneurship Leadership and Innovation / Cert in Public Mgmt. & Social Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science BSc International Business, Bachelor of Science BSc International Business at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)Exchange Term, Exchange Term at University of Technology Sydney
German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech
Github Skills (46)
vendor10
atmel10
controller10
slicer10
firmware10
linux10
gcode10
cnc10
3d-printer10
commercial10
3d-printing10
avr10
pyqt10
opentx10
cnc-controller10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RipperDrone/betaflight-configurator
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Cross platform configuration tool for the Betaflight firmware
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
betaflightfirmwaresmartphonelinuxcross-platform
RipperDrone/unified-targets
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Target configurations for Betaflight Unified Targets
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
targetsbetaflightconfigurations
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