Kyle Wilkinson

Kyle Wilkinson is the CTO and co-founder of Eden, a software company that offers the only complete suite of software to manage the hybrid office. Eden has been included in the Top Y Combinator startups for 2021 and Inc 500 for 2020 as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the US. Prior to Eden, Kyle was a software engineer at Bento Labs, where they were the first engineering hire. At Bento, Kyle contributed to the backend Java server, integrating many third-party services using Tomcat + Jersey + Netflix's services stack (Karyon, Governator, Archaius, RxJava). Kyle also worked on the Android app, system design for infrastructure using AWS and docker, and scripted bootstrapping of development environments using boxen, docker, and Vagrant that emulated AWS. In addition, Kyle created a groovy console that created a REPL for our environment that made iterating on algorithms and exploring data easier. Before Bento, Kyle was a startup enthusiast at StyleBee, where they led a small team of contractors to build the tech and contributed to product and UX design. The product has four major components: an iPhone app for consumers to make and manage appointments; a responsive website mimicking the app's functionality for Android, Windows Mobile, etc; a responsive website for our service providers (e.g. hair stylists) to manage their appointments, payments, etc; and a responsive website for our admins to match and track appointments. Kyle's work at StyleBee included designing and building the server, API, and website; leading the development of an iPhone app; and creating all wireframes for the product. The stack at StyleBee included Ruby/Rails, Postgres, Redis, Memcached and many 3rd party services like Twilio.

Kyle Wilkinson attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2003 to 2006. Kyle studied computer science with an emphasis in mathematics. Kyle was involved in several extracurricular activities, including serving as vice chair of the ACM and as speaker and logistics chair of the Reflections | Projections Conference.