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Welcome to my homepage. I am

Kevin J. Jarnot.

I'm a C-level technology exec who still loves to code.

I am a technology and product leader with decades of experience in software development, product management, and technology leadership.

I have a passion for building great products, managing technology infrastructure, safeguarding company data, and leading high-performing teams.

I’m currently the Chief Information Officer and Data Protection Officer at Uptime Institute, and I’m based out of Boston, MA.

About Me

I lead technology and product teams in the creation of solutions that meet future demands, open up new sales opportunities, and nimbly integrate new technologies for scale and speed to market.

I help companies in fast-growth mode that are going up the growth curve from smaller customers to enterprise and/or global scale, helping them calibrate their technology investment with the stage of the company. I bring a product-led mindset to build solutions that are very clearly aligned to customer needs and can be delivered in the timeframe that the customer requires. I lead engineering teams in the creation of strong, secure, connected platforms, with a reliable cadence of delivery to customers, and I align blended engineering and product teams to work in harmony with the customer in mind.

My career has woven together core tech and product themes across FinTech, HealthTech, B2B marketplaces, eLearning, clinical data and other data-centric organizations ranging from startup to Fortune 500. I’ve led tech/product for companies that have needed to re-platform, migrate to the cloud, create an integrated ecosystem, build for new markets, and/or leverage data for predictive analytics and machine learning.

I get things done. I do what’s necessary, and I know when to step back and lead strategy and when to get my hands dirty. I know how to work well with others and be a team player, to be humble, to adapt quickly to change, and to produce results.

My skills include:

Technology Leadership
Product Management
Software Architecture and Development
Data Protection and Security
Web Development
AI and Machine Learning

Experience

Uptime Institute
Glytec
Micronotes
DebtX
BD-X

Chief Information Officer and Data Protection Officer - Uptime Institute

Jun 2021 - present

I’m currently the Chief Information Officer and Data Protection Officer at Uptime Institute, a global data center-focused consulting company headquartered in NYC.

Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer - Glytec

Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

I was hired to help turn around a blended technology and product team that needed rapid, cloud-centric re-platforming, better predictability around process and releases, a culture of innovation and inclusivity, and a modern, secure, compliant technology architecture that could scale with rapid growth.

Within 90 days, delivered a customer-centric, multiyear technology, product, and engineering plan
Led the high-profile initiative centered on reliable infrastructure, data protection and privacy, and system resilience that opened access to a new level of enterprise customers and revenue streams
Successfully drove roadmap and engineering alignment to achieve the first product release in over 5 years

Chief Technology Officer - Micronotes

Mar 2018 - Jul 2020

I was brought in to help accelerate the company from a Series A startup to a more mature company - with a scalable, cost effective, and secure cloud-based architecture, as well as predictable development processes.

Effectively evolved the platform to enable customer growth from <10 to 100+ financial institutions over a period of 2 years
In partnership with the executive team and board of directors, developed a multiyear roadmap of new and existing products and markets. Led investment decisions, build vs buy, and enterprise partner relationships
Positioned the company as a “best in class” tech provider via a world-class Technical Advisory Board, consisting of academics from MIT and industry experts, collaborating to drive the company’s strategy
Developed a secure, integrated, API-driven ecosystem with banking platforms and products from Fiserv, Kony DBX, Q2, Fis, NCR, and others

Chief Technology Officer - DebtX

Jun 2002 - Mar 2018

I was employee number 10, just after the company had closed their B round. They were using a mostly static website to sell commercial real estate loans on the web. I was hired to assemble a technology team to develop a database-driven, dynamic auction platform that could scale to sell what is now billions of dollars in commercial real estate loans, deliver real-time, predictive loan analytics, and securely host millions of sensitive documents. After successfully developing the platform, the team also successfully developed enterprise risk and valuation tools, as well as a SaaS, white label version of the platform.

Provided strategic vision for the company’s technologies and products
Designed and developed an auction platform used to sell over $50 billion of loans over 10 years
Developed DebtX’s suite of loan analytics tools, which were used to price over $1 trillion of loans on a monthly basis
- Banking CIO Outlook picked DebtX as a top 10 company at the forefront of providing banking analytics solutions
Developed an inclusive software development work culture that resulted in DebtX being included in the Best Places to Work in FinTech in 2019 by SourceMedia
Created and instituted processes, procedures, and policies to help guarantee passing intense security and privacy audits from large banks and the FDIC
Led technology investments and decision making, including migrating the company from Waterfall development to Agile, and from 100% server-based hosting to private/public hybrid cloud via Rackspace and AWS

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer - BD-X

1998 - 2002

Company was successfully sold to Thomson Reuters/CCBN
Provided strategic technology vision, and designed and developed the software solution

Education

Executive Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

Executive program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) - “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.”

Graduate School, Computer Science

University of Pennsylvania

Attended the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and was a member of the ACM and IEEE. I was also employed as Lead Programmer for the university’s Language Analysis Center, where I developed systems for the anaysis of multi-lingual text.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Canisius University

My senior thesis was focused on the development of systems to simulate the structure of botanical models, and I developed a UI to easily define the graph structures of the models. I was also employed as the Computer Science department’s assistant system administrator.