Austin, Texas - United States
IndustryCloud Services (PaaS, SaaS)
Bio
Kirk Marple has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. Marple recently joined General Motors as a Streaming & Multimedia Architect, to leverage his years of experience in large-scale streaming data platforms in a new direction: connected and autonomous vehicles. Marple has founded Candela Software Technologies, LLC to pursue new business opportunities in the media and entertainment space. Looking to align emerging cloud architectures with broadcast, post-production, and OTT workflows, and develop scalable, innovative solutions for a wide set of customers. Marple was the Chief Software Architect of RadiantGrid, a Wohler Technologies Brand. Marple was responsible for the RadiantGrid platform vision, strategic business development, and management of product development. Marple was the founder, President and Chief Software Architect of RadiantGrid Technologies, LLC, before its acquisition by Wohler Technologies in April 2012. Before that, Marple was the co-founder and Chief Software Architect of Agnostic Media for over 7 years. Marple was responsible for architecting the company's technology solutions and building and managing Agnostic Media's development team, and supporting an elite set of Fortune 500 customers. Marple holds five US Patents (#6,049,805, #6,166,732, #6,173,404, #6,212,436, #6,349,301) for his work in object-oriented virtual environment platforms. Marple has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. Specialties: Object-oriented architecture, distributed systems, n-tier web development, media services platforms, metadata structures.
I am good at
Big picture platform-oriented solutions, especially in media processing, cloud services. Worn all the hats from business founder, down to development and operations.
Skills and Expertise
software architecture development biz dev