CJ Kindel
Software Engineer at Foundry
Leavenworth, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCJ Kindel is a software engineer with a decade of experience building production systems across cloud, spatial computing, and AI, currently contributing at Foundry after leading full-stack AI platform work at Griptape. He has deep experience shipping ML-enabled services—owning RAG, LoRA, diffusion, and SaaS offerings—and previously developed database, analytics, and SageMaker integrations at AWS. Comfortable in fluid, early-stage contexts, he rapidly establishes domain knowledge, delivers end-to-end solutions, and codifies learnings to uplift teams and product stability. CJ’s background spans AR/VR and spatial computing at Amazon Nimble Studio and Sumerian, giving him a practical edge when integrating immersive or data-intensive features. Based in Leavenworth, WA, he pairs an active outdoor life (ski, hike) with a pragmatic engineering mindset that seeks one-way and two-way doors when making architectural decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoEastside Catholic School
Github Skills (67)
python10
diffusion-models10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
ai-agent10
audio10
ai10
gpt10
diffusers10
text2image10
flux10
pytorch10
stable-diffusion10
llm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
griptape-ai/griptape-nodes-lora-training-library
Oct 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
griptape-ai/griptape-nodes-library-sam3
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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