# Kane Baccigalupi > Consultant & CTO Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kane Visionary goals for applying technology to problems via product Ability to identify and make tradeoffs for the short and long-term business needs Inventive solutions to       speed product to market       improve customer engagement       increase tech efficiency Product Development and Roadmaps, Agile Methodologies, Web and Native Applications, APIs, Build vs Buy ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2021 – Present ### Fractional CTO @ Unknown Jan 2021 – Present ### Acting CTO - Cornea, a Hangar investment company @ Hangar Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Architected in Python and ML algorithms for fire prediction based on academic research. Created an AWS pipeline for processing geospatial, raster and vector. Wrote stepwise calculation stories for a team of developers to rapidly scale efforts. Created product roadmap for improving beyond existing research. ### Principle Product Engineer & Consultant @ Hangar Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Worked with CTO and CEO of portfolio companies to identify and refine product offerings. Crafted web based sales demonstration to showcase mobility data insights to local and state governments for Camber. Mentored portfolio company developers and data scientists on best architecture and data practices. ### Acting CEO/CTO - Meter Reporting, a Hangar investment company @ Hangar Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Worked with DHS’s Procurement Innovation Lab to make past contract performance more comprehensible, via search, improving acquisition. Researched current usage, and tested new, low-fidelity prototypes with specialists across ten agencies. Developed lightweight AI search algorithms for identifying the most relevant past performance. Developed pricing model and business expansion opportunities. ### Co-Founder, CT/PO @ Contakt Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Contakt is a platform that allows influencer/experts to monetize their experience via email. Partnered with the CEO to refine the market, develop the product and fundraise. Built a robust, reliable data pipeline centered around email. ### Development Director @ thoughtbot Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Co-chaired the founding DEI committee. Overhauled the developer hiring and promotion process to be equitable and fair. Increased diversity to 50%. Worked hands-on, in the code, with clients and their teams to improve code bases, and team effectiveness. Partnered with the managing director to scope inbound sales prospects and reshape engagements to be collaborative partnerships. Mentored consultant team on better engineering, product and consulting practices. ### Product Owner, Architect @ California Department of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Negotiated with stakeholders from CA DMV, Office of the CA CIO, and CA Secretary of State to bring online the drivers license and ID application with latest changes to Motor Voter laws. Hired and managed design and engineering teams via the government procurement process. Orchestrated user research and architected a high-performance Node.js and React application: https://www.edl.dmv.ca.gov. ### Principal Technical Strategist - Oversight @ California Department of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Embedded in the Child Welfare Digital Services project to rebuild a legacy desktop system for helping county social workers manage cases and provide better outcomes for families. Advised CIO and her staff on how to provide better oversight for agile projects. Proposed data strategies for building and migrating to the new software system. Mentored vendor teams on improving their working products. ### Principal Technical Strategist - Discovery @ California Department of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sacramento, California Area Worked with leadership at CA-MMIS to recover from a failed contract effort to modernize medicare legacy systems. I orchestrated a discovery effort with four other strategists that ultimately recommended splitting the legacy maintenance effort from modernization teams so they could move forward with modular procurement. ### Innovation Strategist @ GSA, 18F Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area GSA's 18F is an IT innovation agency within the federal government. I worked on the strategy team, offering technical advice and hands-on support for moving agencies and their projects to better practices and outcomes. US Census Bureau: As engagement lead, in a project focusing on internet data collection for the 2020 survey, I acted as a bridge between engineering teams and Census top leadership, introducing product development processes and improving agile practices. Lead a five week discovery process with a team of 8 strategists, engineers and designers. Improved software design practices and lead a two day engineering design workshop. Worked with CIO and Deputy Director to address the highest risk issues for the decennial survey: cloud infrastructure and IT governance. Environmental Protection Agency, E-Enterprise Program: Provided technical strategy for Combined Air Emissions Reporting, a program trying to combine state and industry reporting of four emissions streams. Co-lead discovery process. Crafted a data architecture that would allow state and federal program managers to understand the data reporting and query it for their own needs. Taught a two day agile workshop that bridged the gap between state and EPA needs around reporting. Guided EPA towards low­-risk, high-return solutions that could be completed within a month and establish trust with state participants. Health and Human Services, Unaccompanied Children: Mentored junior 18F engineering staff on technical discovery process. Rebuilt a technical strategy for agile extraction of well built services from a monolithic, legacy C# application. Taught 18F and agency team best agile product practices. ### Engineering & Agile Development Consultant @ Ministry of Velocity Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Worked on engagements lasting from one day to six months, advising company leadership on building or rebuilding both their IT organization and their core software products. Lead a one­-day working session with engineering leadership at an enterprise SaaS company to tackle system instability, leading to data architecture solution that increased uptime. Provided expert technical and organizational advice to CEO/Founder of food delivery startup that was transitioning from a hastily built prototype to a scalable, customizable solution. Performed hands­-on engineering and mentoring for two enterprise SaaS companies struggling with legacy code issues. Improved agile software practices, increased velocity, and re­architected failing systems and applications. ### Acting Director gSchool @ Galvanize Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Increased operational efficiency of the web education school, while the company acquired the Zipfian academy and merged with the new University of New Haven backed masters program in data science. Oversaw instructions, admissions and student outcomes during the transition. Reduced instructor costs by 30% and increased facility utilization at Boulder campus via concurrent classes. Launched San Francisco instruction campus, creating curriculum and leading instruction at the first web development six month course. Reorganized school-wide roles to increase efficiency, and improve instructor retention. Streamlined admissions from scattered ad hoc processes into a comprehensive system tracking leads to conclusion. Built a system of soft and hard metrics for estimating student success, removing bias from the admissions process and increasing diversity. ### CTO @ SocialChorus Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Transformed a brittle, monolithic legacy application into a high-performance, service-oriented architecture. Converted low-velocity, high-attrition engineering culture into a happy productive work environment. Crafted the product that became company's top competitive advantage via better user-interviews, user-testing and great agile practices. Product: Crafted the user-focused, real-time advocate experience that became the top competitive advantage for the company. Designed product via user interviews, rapid build-out of a working prototype, and finally an on-time, 6-week, agile execution plan. Enhanced agile process via stricter story processes, company-wide retrospectives and user-focused practices. Engineering: Transformed a stagnating, legacy application into a robust service-oriented architecture driving both scale and development speed. Separated administrative facing application from advocate facing application. Crafted high-performance services for tracking click traffic of promoted advocate content. Authored over 6 open source libraries including a mobile first front-end framework, and a framework for developing and deploying services. Team Building: Replaced existing small engineering team with a new group of ten dedicated developers, a Director of Engineering and QA staff. Rebuilt the product team. Created a successful internship program with graduates who converted to team leads. Improved engineering and company culture with a focus on problem solving and striving for practical best practices. ### Agile Consultant @ Blazing Cloud Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Advised several companies about refining and improving development and agile practices to increase velocity. Recruited and interviewed developer talent from intern to senior level with talents in Ruby, Javascript and Objective-C. Mentored interns, built internal company best practices, and advised on internal business and product decisions. Lead technical direction and product management on graphically intense mobile first application in HTML and Javascript. Blazing Cloud was acquired by Indiegogo in 2013. ### Architect @ Cohuman, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Second employee at SaaS company that was acquired after two years. Planned and developed scalable features for a project management application with complex permissions and notifications. Cohuman was acquired by MindJet and is currently offered as MindJet Connect as their task management solution. ### CTO @ ClerkDogs Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Worked with CEO to build a combination of flexible options for movie recommendations: turn-key white list solutions; data consumption via API and export. Ultimately, the data was acquired by Netflix in early 2010. Transformed rough, untested prototype into two user facing applications: one for admin and one for consumers. Consumer application was a modular, composable application that could be graphically skinned to match company look and feel, and could be customized with components according to needs and costs. Hired and managed remote team. Pioneered agile practices and testing to increase velocity and stability. ClerkDogs was a human powered movie recommendation application, where experts recommendations were combined with machine learning to provide a variety of tools for discovering new movies. Unlike existing recommendation solutions, this system required no investment or input from the interested movie goer. ### Web & Database Consultant, Contract @ University of California Press Jan 2000 – Jan 2008 | Berkeley, CA Created custom database applications from internal business processes in order to free up labor for higher level business concerns. ### CTO, Founder @ GPC, Inc Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Managed all aspects of the business: hiring contract labor, generating documentary content, getting press in national publications and technical and product aspects of being a CTO. Hired contract labor and sourced documentary content. Created web application solution for showcasing documentary video content in a variety of formats and sizes with the flexibility to adjust rapidly for best product market fit. Built a service oriented suite of custom database applications for scheduling and managing contract video production staff and interviewees. Scaled infrastructure to allow thousands of simultaneous streaming connections for special events. Crafted security architecture capable of storing important employment personally identifiable information. ### Engineering Intern, ATLAS Project @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | Berkeley, CA Junior member of five person mechanical engineering team responsible for prototyping and building the inner and second layer of the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Rebuilt microscope calibration algorithms to fix manufacturing problems with radial sensors. Created custom database application for analyzing radiation length and interference of detector on readings. Devised heat transfer and static force analysis simulation to validate models. Created CAD designs for insertion system for central detector and machined several components. ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley ### BFA in Fine Art, Painting San Francisco Art Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kane-baccigalupi --- Source: https://flows.cv/kane JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kane/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12