SVP Product & Engineering · TrackVia · 2015–2026
Leading technology investments that drive real business outcomes.
That means identifying the technical bets others aren't making yet — FedRAMP when no one had a path, AI-native engineering before it had a name — and staying hands-on from architecture to shipped product. Technical lead on all 325 NIST 800-53 controls: FedRAMP Ready in 11 months. +274% engineering throughput year-over-year from the AI integration we built and shipped. When TrackVia was acquired in March 2026, the engineering campaign I led was cited 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 solo, 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 — then rebuilt the system around the team that remained. Standardized SDLC ceremonies, unified CI/CD across web, mobile, and platform, and ran the first post-restructure sprint to validate the new model. Promoted to SVP the same month.
The engineering campaign that opened a locked market — and made the company acquirable.
When Bow River Capital acquired TrackVia 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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