Rick Duggan
Co-Founder & CEO at Kanek
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolRick Duggan is a veteran technology entrepreneur and operator with 12+ years leading product and engineering teams as Co-Founder & CEO of Concierge Software Design and multiple CTO roles across fintech, healthcare staffing, and customer engagement. He blends deep business acumen with hands-on technical expertise—shipping blockchain membership systems and smart contracts, building immersive QR/beacon-driven user experiences, and delivering fractional CTO services that turn ambitious ideas into production. Known in the Las Vegas tech community as a mentor, evangelist, and repeat founder, he repeatedly scales teams and processes to drive operational improvements and large-scale implementations. Beyond product delivery, Rick has a track record of socially minded ventures (e.g., Remeco Care) and practical cost-saving systems (HRIS commute optimization), reflecting a pragmatic focus on measurable impact. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and is as comfortable advising startups as he is leading enterprise-grade engineering programs.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyLake Howell High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (29)
timetable9
codepush8
trains8
transport8
flutter7
station6
react5
javascript4
typescript4
tfs3
mir2
wav2
audio-files2
nodejs2
slack2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Paylani/paylani-api-docs
Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
Beautiful static documentation for your API
Contributions:56 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
apiopenapimarkdownapi-documentation
rickduggan/DepartureBoard
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
🚅 This Project allows a user to view live train times in the format of a station departure board
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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