Rolf Kaiser
Core Engineering at DigiPowers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRolf Kaiser is a seasoned engineering leader and inventor with 12+ years of hands-on experience building core software, hardware, and security systems from San Francisco. As CTO and co-founder across multiple startups and now leading Core Engineering at RAVN Networks, he blends product instincts with deep systems and DevOps craft to ship end-to-end solutions. A self-taught hobby programmer since the early 90s and lifelong Linux/FOSS advocate, he still contributes backend code to projects like the popular Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, tinkering with game logic and clean code. His background spans enterprise product teams at Microsoft to raising venture-backed startups, giving him rare fluency across R&D, ops, and commercial engineering. Known for getting things shipped “with whatever it takes,” he pairs mechanical-engineering rigor (Caltech, Stanford) with pragmatic, elegant system design.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
code-formatting9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rolf primarily contributed to the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup repository by modifying code related to item interactions, specifically focusing on how Xom interacts with cloaks and scarves. Their commits involved altering the game's code logic to produce different effects based on the item type and fixing indentation and coding style inconsistencies. These changes directly impacted the game's user experience by adding variety to item-related interactions within the game.
dungeonstonerpgroguelikedungeon-crawl-stone-soup
abstrakct/smb-randomizer
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
Randomizer for Super Mario Bros. for the NES. PHP backend, web frontend.
Contributions:211 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 9 months
backendphpweb-frontend
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