Kevin Stubbs

We started in adtech and pivoted after a few years to become a venture studio.

I started as the CTO but moved into other roles as our startup needs evolved.

We built a proof of concept which Amazon ran a paid pilot of. It was enterprise-level license checking automation, but we could not convert them or others long-term as the conventional thinking was that they were fine to occasionally manually check licenses rather than ensuring they are always up to date. We developed a system that would automatically verify any set of contractor licenses across all states and cities. Home services companies such as Amazon Home Services, Thumbtack, and Angie's List have thousands of contractors each carrying their own licenses issued in different states - with no unified interface to query for licenses. At the time we were developing this system, these companies were manually checking licenses of contractors applying to be listed at best, or not checking them at all at worst. Additionally, since licenses can be suspended or expire, our system would periodically check that each license was still valid.

Developing internal security and accessibility services to protect Microsoft's online products. - Wrote a distributed accessibility auditing service to test websites and modern Windows apps for compliance with the Microsoft Accessibility Standards by running a rules engine against the DOM. - Worked with team to iterate on security vulnerability detection service that runs against daily Bing and MSN traffic pipelines and infrastructure. I implemented new security vulnerability detectors, made quality of service improvements to the service infrastructure, and created a website for customers to schedule their own security scans. Using what I learned writing these services, I put together an Internet of Things demo that I presented at Tech Ready 20 for the Azure track.

I started working at Microsoft on the Windows Embedded team while I was still in high school; logistically we did this by hiring me through one of their already approved vendors. Worked on the next generation of Microsoft Sync as a software developer on the team that owns the music experience in the car. Developed prototypes of future products and created internal test suites for my first two years.

I built and sold my first Flash game for $1k when I was 13 years old. Independent Flash game developer. I recruited artistic talent from around the world to create Flash games that we then sold to game portals.