Kal Walkden
Co-Founder at Chicago CTO Group
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKal Walkden is a hands-on technology executive and product engineering leader with 11 years in senior roles and a track record of scaling startups to exit and enterprise-ready products across consumer, SaaS, and supply-chain businesses. As VP of Product Engineering at Double Good and former CTO/VP at companies like HelloFresh/Factor 75, ForeverCar, and Digital H2O, he blends pragmatic engineering (Go, Python, React, Rails, AWS) with product strategy to drive rapid growth and operational scaling. He has led cross-functional teams through acquisitions and hypergrowth—helping deliver over a million boxes per week at Factor—and has overseen both infrastructure and customer-facing product roadmaps. A Chicago-based organizer and mentor in the local CTO community and Code Platoon, he pairs executive EQ with deep technical fluency and a history of turning experimental products into profitable, data-driven businesses. Notably, his background spans founding-stage solo engineering to leading distributed teams across multiple continents, demonstrating a rare comfort with both startup scrappiness and enterprise discipline.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science Parallel and Distributed Computing, Master's of Science Parallel and Distributed Computing at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (19)
pypi10
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django8
python8
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
grape-api6
ckeditor6
ruby6
id36
rubygems6
queue3
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ChicagoCTOGroup/chicagoctogroup.com
Aug 2018 - Jun 2026
A public website with information about the Chicago CTO Group built with jekyll and elbow grease.
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 11 months
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mwalkden/kal_3s
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 20 days
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