SVP Product & Engineering · TrackVia · 2015–2026
Leading technology investments that drive real business outcomes.
For over a decade, I built and led a 20-person product & engineering department — hired, developed, and retained through hypergrowth and significant business headwinds. Minimal turnover in a volatile industry is not an accident; it reflects how I lead. That foundation made the ambitious bets possible: FedRAMP authorization when no one had a clear path, and AI-native engineering before it had a name. I've been hands-on from architecture to shipping product — rewriting apps and platforms, owning all 325 NIST 800-53 controls as technical lead, and building the AI pipeline that drove a 274% increase in engineering throughput year-over-year. When TrackVia was acquired in March 2026, the engineering campaign I led was recognized as the primary driver of deal value.
The challenge. The role. The outcome.
Government enterprise customers required FedRAMP compliance to sign. TrackVia had no path to authorization and no internal expertise. Missing this market meant ceding $10M+ in pipeline.
Led the initiative from scratch: selected the authorization path (Game Warden), staffed a 6-person security team, re-platformed infrastructure to Kubernetes with Chainguard + FIPS 140-2, covered all 325 NIST 800-53 controls as technical lead, and presented the strategy to the board.
AI was moving faster than the team could adopt it. The risk: being lapped by competitors shipping AI-native products while TrackVia remained largely manual.
Designed and owned "Intelligent Teams" end-to-end: shipped 2 production AI products, built 17 internal tools, and created Dark Factory — 3 autonomous agentic pipelines where an approved ticket comes in and a merged MR goes out, zero manual steps. Also shipped a Model Context Protocol server so customers can query TrackVia through Claude.
Business headwinds required cutting 30% of engineering headcount. Standard outcome: 12–18 months of throughput loss and morale damage. The board expected both.
Made the decision on who and why — transparently, with care. Then rebuilt the system around the people who remained. Standardized SDLC ceremonies, unified CI/CD across web, mobile, and platform, and ran the first post-restructure sprint to validate the new operating model. The team that stayed, stayed — minimal attrition through one of the hardest chapters in the company's history. Promoted to SVP the same month.
The engineering campaign that opened a locked market — and made the company acquirable.
When TrackVia was acquired in March 2026, FedRAMP was the deal's core value proposition. The platform Kyle built — rearchitected from EC2 to Kubernetes, FIPS 140-2 aligned, DoD authorized in 11 months — was the reason they bought it in an 8-figure exit. He led all Product & Engineering due diligence across the transaction: the person who built the acquisition thesis, standing in front of the buyer to prove every piece of it.
Proof that the right technical leadership creates deal value, not just products.
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