Loren Kirkby

CTO / Co-Founder

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Jun 2017 - Current (9 years 1 month)

Digital Services Expert

US DOGE Service

Dec 2016 - May 2017 (6 months)

Executive in Residence

Bolt

Jun 2016 - May 2017 (1 year)

Sr. Staff Engineer

Nest

Jul 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year 5 months)

Dropcam was acquired by Google's Nest Labs in June 2014. Integrated Dropcam technology and teams into the Nest organization; we launched the Nest Cam in June 2015. Defined roadmap and lead R&D for future camera products.

Chief Architect

Dropcam

Oct 2009 - Jul 2014 (4 years 10 months)

Dropcam defined the market for an easy-to-use home camera. I was employee #1 and designed and built much of the Dropcam technology stack: camera hardware, mobile apps, embedded firmware, massively scalable cloud storage systems, and everything in between. As we grew Dropcam to over 100 people, I helped build and lead an amazing engineering team. Dropcam was acquired by Google’s Nest Labs in June 2014 for $555M.

Lead Engineer

DivX LLC

Sep 2006 - Oct 2009 (3 years 2 months)

Lead engineering for all DivX desktop software (Windows & Mac) and DivX Connected, a set-top box for streaming DivX content to the TV. The DivX software suite has been downloaded over a billion times.

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Senior Software Developer

PiXPO Inc

May 2003 - Aug 2006 (3 years 4 months)

PiXPO was a platform for quickly sharing photos and videos. Was the 4th employee at small startup company. Lead engineering of Windows desktop application, networking, P2P streaming, video transcoding, and much more. Helped grow the company to over 20 employees and raise $6M in Series A venture funding.

Software Developer

ACD Systems

Jan 2000 - Apr 2003 (3 years 4 months)

Worked on the ACDSee photo management application. Was responsible for photo-editing components of ACDSee aimed at simple photo editing tasks (level adjustments, color correction, red-eye correction, etc.). Created, designed and built the FotoCanvas image editing application. FotoCanvas supported a number of advanced image editing features and became a popular part of the ACDSee Pro bundle. American Photo Magazine reviewed the application as “Unusually well-conceived.”

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