Ken Grimes Email & Phone Number

Moderately hands-on advisory role to support product-market-fit activities. Might join operations again in the future if new groundwork needs to be created.

Metapyxl helps creators protect, track and monetize their work with its patented technology that embeds invisible, indestructible rights management directly into digital assets.Starting from concept and non-functional prototype attempts, I joined Metapyxl to lead efforts in taking a pre-revenue, $0-budget concept into production with the foundations to continue its growth. I created a strategy to define a clear and tractable product from the company's ambitious vision, with a clear and reachable audience, and a small budget (below $1mm). This resulted in our acceptance to the NEC-X accelerator, batch 11, in February & March of 2024, which provided initial funding and development resources.Over the course of the project I provided operational management, talent acquisition, hands-on development (devops, architecture and code) and other technical services, as well as interviewing customers, designing UX wireframes, business coaching, pricing strategy, and sales, which resulted in a competent and capable development team & processes, and the successful launch of Metapyxl's MVP product suite: an Enterprise API, Digital Vault App, Rights Viewer (Browser Plug-in), and integrations to Dropbox and Squarespace, which allow Metapyxl to deploy its products into the hands of its customers through a variety of channels - including existing workflows.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Building future-proof platforms for the international gig economy with worker safety, tax compliance, and better earnings in focus.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Over the summer of 2024, I served as Interim CTO and was deeply involved with market, product, and technical strategy as well as fund-raising activities and hands-on development of GPS tracking and certification software. I also traveled to Italy and participated in Generative AI acceleration grant application activities for the European Innovation Council's 2024 work programme, where I was lucky enough to collaborate with influential members of the EU SMB policy space and lead a Value Chain Mapping workshop with our team and EIC coaching team.RoadBird's proprietary compliance platform and AI tech are gaining a lot of attention as the first mover in solutions for the global crisis of migrant worker abuse, tax avoidance, and sustainability within the rideshare services industry. My expertise in the industry and technology are leveraged to fine-tune the business model for market fit, and scale the already proven solution into a rapidly expanding market.

Flashee is a fashion app devoted to serving under-represented merchants with a unique brand discovery mechanism for GenZ buyers who find it increasingly difficult to find ethical and sustainable brands worth following.This woman-owned & operated company was founded by a tenacious and dedicated team of women looking to build channels in business and fashion where meaningful culture can thrive. I've was proud to be welcomed into this team working in a business advisory capacity and directly managing technical operations from April 2023-2024. I've remained involved in a passive advisory role.

Miami, Florida, Us

A Web3 NFT publishing platform. Assisted founding team in developing MVP product (hands-on), IR strategy, and business planning.

Global, Ch

A thrilling opportunity to build world changing next-generation technology in the growing landscape of Web3 & decentralization with some of the best minds in the industry.• Core engineering for implementation of a decentralized, private compute and storage node network• Information-Theoretic Security protocols developed in Rust

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Head of data strategy and talent acquisition for data science and data engineering, improving visibility of data assets across the org and customer base.• Leadership in Lean management practices focused on eliminating waste, improving delivery, quality and uptime.• Managed build of a new, modern tech infrastructure for the platform• Negotiation and SLA governance of tech platform providers and partners

San Francisco, California, Us

• Grew tech department from 5 employees to 20 (and on to 45+ in later stages) while implementing organizational processes (SDLC, PDLC) and training programs to facilitate Agile sprints and interdepartmental communication. • Implemented structured meetings, product and software development processes, and organized system rewrites to improve operational efficiency and product quality. • Increased marketing funnel conversion rates with Mobile Applications by 3x over web platform, spearheaded multiple system improvement initiatives including a collections algorithm netting over $3M/annum. • Principle engineer for 3 customer-facing products including mobile applications at scale with AWS and GCP cloud infrastructures on PostgreSQL, Apollo/Node.js, GraphQL, React web stack • Architected data pipeline for event-driven backend over Postgres, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra and Databricks deployed on AWS with ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana for search and Redis caching all deployed from GitLab CI/CD with container orchestration in ECR/ELB/EC2 • Organized and managed projects for Business Intelligence, Product Development, Business Automation, Quality Assurance and Security • Code reviews, bug triaging, full stack development, CICD and DevOps, C4 Architecture Specs, Telematics & Insurance Research. 80% hands-on.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Led development of company's technology on a small team of in-house engineers, expanding the web based marketplace product with native mobile applications and stabilizing and scaling its monolith backend.• Recruited and helped manage new mobile application team• Designed and developed a microservices oriented architecture• Introduced event driven data ecosystems to the company

San Francisco, California, Us

• Individual contributions directly on Node.js backend and React driven web front-end for the company's marketplace• Stabilized faulty implementations leading to slow response times, frequent outages, and broken front-end functionality

• Maintain and optimize server and databases, CentOS, NginX, MySQL, PHP, BASH • Created secure backend application for remote website editing and e-commerce via Shopify • Leveraged cutting edge database and site caching technology in software design to reduce hosting costs to $5/mo from $300+/mo and growing. Linode, Tarantool, NginX + Hugo, Node.js and React.js • Improved efficiency of content management for non-technical staff

• Co-founded company with 13 members, managed and lead research & development for 2.5 years. • Trained developers, designed software and specifications for projects • Used Emscripten transpiler to compile C engine to WebAssembly using WebGL and WebRTC • Created in-browser client routing protocols based on Koord algorithm, designed and implemented network security, database architecture, drafted the 92-page operating agreement with legal counsel to creating a structure of federated employees who retained copyrights to their work. • Created the STON programming language and APC compiler to package A/V assets for engine, implemented in C with a Bison-directed LR parser and Ragel-directed lexical analyzer. • Managed version control (git), servers, backups, Node.js application server

• Part-time while enrolled full-time at University of Texas • Programming lessons, command-line tutoring • Contract work: web apps, personal pages, blogs, server administration/setup – Node.js, Ansible

Contractor/Subcontractor/Consultant across multiple vendors and organizations (dominantly Hospitals and Universities) working on networking technology and systems migrations (MS to *nix)

Computer Science

Computer Science

Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications