About Kyle

Hi, my name is Kyle Hotchkiss.

When I was in college, all I wanted was to graduate and find a humble software job somewhere in southwest Virginia.

Instead, I dropped out of college, and was hired as the first employee at what’s grown to be an incredibly successful web development studio where I’ve worked on everything from generating DHL labels to send soccer balls around the world, built a real-time map infographic that was on display in Times Square, helped Paul Allen Tackle Ebola, wrote some of the code that processed millions of signups for a lovely presidential candidate, and built the first version of a calculator to help people figure out what it means to actually electrify their house. Almost my entire career has revolved around Javascript, a language that has made work so much more fun than others. I’ve worked there for over a decade now.

In my personal life, I got as far away as I could from Virginia, even spending 3 years living in India (during the covid era!), tried starting a NGO with some friends (fail), found a home and settled in San Diego, became passionate about photography (enough to once exhibit my work to an audience including my cities mayor!) I’ve taken trains up, down, and across the country. One time my college hobby project made hackaday.

My current interests include slowly trying to learn biology, southwest asia, and trying to figure out what to do with everything I’ve experienced. I almost lost a loved one to an infectious disease before and every day it runs across my mind, what can I do to help prevent one more person from having to go through that? I enjoy taking my 4Runner out to explore Californias incredible geography. I gave up on church back in 2016 because of the whole election thing. I’m trying to bite my tongue, remember where I came from, and take my faith more seriously nowadays. It’s going better than I anticipated. I hope to get a chance to visit all 7 continents and see Everest up close.

My life didn’t turn out how I expected it to.

And I’m happy it didn’t.

If you want to say hi, my email is kyle at this domain. Thank you for letting me share my story.