Kirk Marple
Chief Executive Officer, Technical Founder at Graphlit, by Unstruk Data
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Marple is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 10 years of senior leadership experience and a two-decade track record building scalable data, media, and IoT platforms. As the technical founder of Graphlit by Unstruk Data he’s focused on knowledge ETL and retrieval APIs that power context infrastructure for products like Dossium. Previously he scaled engineering organizations and shipped ML and computer-vision driven analytics at Kespry, led product and cloud architecture across startups and enterprises including GM and STATS, and drove a successful exit with RadiantGrid/Wohler. Kirk blends hands-on architecture and product leadership—spanning event-driven microservices, big data ingestion, and media processing—with a knack for recruiting and mentoring high-performing teams. Based in Seattle, he pairs an academic foundation in computer science (UBC) with a practical history of turning complex streaming and visual-data challenges into production systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
English
Stackoverflow
343reputation
9kreached
1answer
16questions
Github Skills (200)
cloud-computing10
windows10
terraform10
specification10
search-api10
schema10
content-extraction10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
linux10
dotnet10
azure10
azure-resource-manager10
csharp10
owin-middleware10
web-crawler10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
graphlit/graphlit-samples
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Sample applications built on the Graphlit Platform
Contributions:20 reviews, 17 PRs, 488 pushes in 1 year
graphlit/graphlit-mcp-server
Mar 2025 - Jan 2026
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Graphlit Platform
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 212 pushes in 10 months
claudecontent-extractioncontent-ingestiondata-collectionllm-tools
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