Rick Kuhlman
General Manager, AI, Design & Platform Software
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Kuhlman is a product and engineering executive with 10+ years leading software, AI, and platform strategy in test & measurement and IoT, currently General Manager for AI, Design & Platform Software at Tektronix. With an MS in electrical engineering and an MBA, he blends hardware-rooted technical depth and hands-on mobile app entrepreneurship—having shipped 20+ iPhone apps and led startups and acquisitions such as Initial State—into pragmatic product leadership. He has steered cloud, SaaS, analytics, and embedded initiatives across organizations from startups to enterprise, and built cross-functional teams that translate complex hardware capabilities into delightful software experiences. An operator who still codes and designs, he brings rare full-stack fluency and a proven knack for commercializing security-conscious connected devices (e.g., Havenlock) alongside AI-driven product transformations.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Operations and Entrepreneurship, MBA, Operations and Entrepreneurship at Haslam College of Business at the University of TennesseeMS, Engineering (concentration electrical), MS, Engineering (concentration electrical) at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (12)
labview8
matlab7
streaming-data4
python4
go3
react3
blockchain2
lorawan2
blockchain-network2
elixir2
graphql1
device-management1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
initialstate/LabVIEW-Stream-SDK
May 2018 - Sep 2020
This SDK was built in LabVIEW 2018 (Saved for Previous to LabVIEW 2013) and gives a simple SDK for streaming data from LabVIEW to your Initial State workspace.
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
labviewstreaming-data
QuizIn/QuizIn-iOS
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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