Kyle is an experienced technology executive leader specialized in software architecture and product management in
the context of startups and turnarounds. Past teams range from small 4 person engineering teams to 45 person fully
remote, multi-disciplinary departments distributed around the world. Kyle is comfortable interacting directly with
customers, investors, and boards, and has significant enterprise training and university-level teaching experience.
He has an extensive software engineering background including quality, architecture, operations, and support across
multiple platforms including native C, enterprise Java, iOS, Android, Angular, and NodeJS.
Snout
Head of Engineering
Achievements
Introduced MVP theory and tactics to the company, simplifying product-market fit finding.
Recruited, hired, and led a small engineering team of eight engineers.
Led technical operations as the company scaled from zero to thousands of customers.
Projects
veterinary wellness plan system
designed and implemented infrastructure, web services, web apps, and relational database
JavaScript
NodeJS
PostgreSQL
AWS
React
on-premises veterinary data replication application
allowed snout indepencence from existing veterinary data integration providers
Python
C
Win32
Pascal
Screencastify
Staff Software Engineer
Achievements
Provided technical leadership for one of the three core engineering teams.
Projects
video storage management tool
TypeScript
Chrome
GCP
Alternate 36
Chief Technology Officer
Achievements
Led engineering team and payment product through an adversarial company leadership transition.
Secured secondary seed round through conception and execution of product roadmap.
Projects
next-generation payment platform
designed platform, led project, and personally implemented purely RESTful web services
created modular monolith architecture allowing simple present-day operations and easy future microservice segregation
JavaScript
NodeJS
PostgreSQL
AWS
React Native
legacy payment platform
fixed long-standing defects and improved user experience
JavaScript
Angular
Azure
Java
marketing website
ported website off a proprietary platform
AWS
JavaScript
Startup Co-Founder
Achievements
Took multiple products through conception, market analysis, MVP, pivots, public rollout, and end of life.
Products
web-based private sales platform
spatial web conferencing solution
online test proctoring service
parking rewards and loyalty system
algorithmic horse racing analysis tool
high-frequency sports gambling news
Building Engines
Vice President, Engineering
Achievements
Saved biggest customer deal ever by commissioning and leading a tiger team to address critical platform concerns.
Created a growth engineering culture through an internal technical conference and regular targeted training sessions.
Radically increased engineering capabilities by introducing a new interview process and removing failing team members.
Improved project outcomes by replacing uniform cargo-cult scrum process with personalized per-team agile processes.
Successfully integrated Synlio product and team into Building Engines' commercial real-estate management platform in only two weeks.
Synlio
Chief Technology Officer
Achievements
Exited through acquisition by Building Engines for platform integration.
Owned business operations and strategy for 12 months pre-acquisition.
Successfully pivoted from service provider network product to RFP management product.
Grew from team of one engineer to multi-disciplinary team of 12 over four years.
Achieved "five nines" of uptime over four years of operation.
Projects
rfp management system
conceived, designed, implemented, deployed, maintained, and operated the system
composed simple layered architectures both in client and server