Job Title: Chief Technology Officer
Company: Antidote
Beginning his career as a software engineer, Kurt Kruger is now the CTO at Antidote. He has over a decade of experience in the industry and has worked at leading companies, including SnapScan, Jumo, and Yoco.
Throughout his career Kurt has honed his data mining and visualisation, computational intelligence, and distributed systems expertise. His educational accomplishments include an MSc and BSc (Hons) in computer science, both from the University of Cape Town.
Kurt was among the nominees for the 2025 CIO Awards.
Work
2023 – Present CTO, Antidote
2022 – 2024 Technical Lead, RadarHR
2022 – 2023 CPTO, SnapScan
2019 – 2022 CTO, SnapScan
2018 – 2019 Engineering Manager, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
2016 – 2018 Engineering Manager, Jumo
2014 – 2016 Lead Engineer, Yoco
2013 – 2014 Senior Developer, New Media Labs
2012 – 2013 Senior Software Engineer, TouchLab
2011 – 2012 Senior Software Engineer, Korbitec
2009 – 2011 Software Developer, Intec
2006 – 2009 Software Engineer, Complex Adaptive Systems
2003 – 2005 Part-time Developer, University of Cape Town
Education
2006 – 2008 MSc, Computer Science, University of Cape Town
2002 – 2005 BSc (Hons), Computer Science, University of Cape Town
About company: Antidote provides playtesting and user research services for game studios and publishers.
