Jonathan Kissane
Co-Founder at Stanford University - Bing Overseas Studies Program
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Kissane is an AI-focused technology executive and founder with two decades of experience building high-impact teams and commercializing disruptive technologies across crypto, payments, cloud, and enterprise software. As Co-Founder of CrystalComputing.ai he is now driving an enterprise LLM API platform that promises 50–100x developer efficiency gains, after running P&L, business ops, corp dev and multiple business units at Kraken. He previously led Visa’s global corporate development and M&A efforts, directing billions in strategic investments across six continents with focuses including AI and real-time payments. At NetApp and CA Technologies he incubated cloud businesses and steered M&A and strategy work that helped pivot legacy products into modern cloud and SaaS offerings. A former design engineer, BCG consultant and venture investor, he combines hands-on technical understanding with legal and business training (JD from Harvard, MBA from INSEAD, dual degrees from Stanford). Based in Palo Alto, he blends operator rigor with deal-making fluency and a knack for translating emerging tech into repeatable, revenue-driving businesses.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at INSEADJD Law, JD Law at Harvard Law SchoolAB History, AB History at Stanford University
Github Skills (152)
minecraft10
linux10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
gnome10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
gnome-shell10
toolchain10
react10
compiler9
flutter-ui9
antd9
ui-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CM-Tech/car-evolution
Aug 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 133 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 9 months
matter-jsmatter
ckissane/blur-me
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Extension that adds a blur look to applications and to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
gnome-shellgnomeblurlinuxrice
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