Kirk Marple
Founder at graphlit
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKirk Marple is a seasoned technology leader and founder CEO driving cloud-native, data-driven platforms across media, analytics, and IoT. As Technical Founder of Unstruk Data and CEO of Graphlit, he leads development of API-driven knowledge ETL and retrieval, marrying NLP, knowledge graphs, and scalable microservices. He has hands-on experience with .NET Core/C#, AWS and Azure, and a track record of delivering cost-saving, revenue-accelerating architectures—from parallel video transcoding and OEM deployments to REST APIs for large-scale broadcasting. Previously CTO at Kespry and CTO at HEROFi, he built data-driven marketing and perception analytics platforms, and led teams across engineering, QA, DevOps, and product. His career spans GM's streaming and multimedia architectures and Wohler's media transcoding systems, reflecting a rare blend of enterprise-scale and startup execution. Based in Seattle, he holds an MSc in Computer Science from UBC and a BSc from Kutztown, and excels at turning ambitious ideas into product-market fits.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
uploader10
schema10
web-applications10
json10
rete10
draw10
azure-resource-manager10
owin-middleware10
terraform-provider10
schema-org10
dotnetcore10
windows10
terraform10
asp-net10
resumable10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
graphlit/graphlit-samples
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Sample applications built on the Graphlit Platform
Contributions:20 reviews, 17 PRs, 484 pushes in 1 year
graphlit/graphlit-client-python
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:116 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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