
Reuben McQueen
Co-founder & CTO
About
Reuben works with organisations to uncover high-impact AI opportunities and build end-to-end systems that deliver measurable results. With a First-Class Computer Science degree from Durham University and ten years of software development experience, four specialising in AI, he brings deep technical expertise to every project.
As CTO of OpenKit, Reuben architects Conductor's RAG pipelines, intelligent agents, and secure cloud deployments. His expertise spans large language models, RAG systems, multimodal applications, AI agents, full-stack development, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Supabase. He leads the team's ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 compliance efforts.
Notable Achievements
- Rubrical - 50% reduction in teacher marking time
- Air Aware - Real-time data AI agent for environmental monitoring
- Custom AI systems achieving 90%+ review time reduction
- 3 years consulting on production LLM systems
- Co-founder/CTO at OpenKit since 2020