Kyle Turner
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, leading all 323 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.
Currently exploring VP Engineering · SVP · CTO roles — Denver or remote.
The challenge. The role. The outcome.
Launched a new platform & opened a new government market.
2024–2026 · Security & Platform
Government enterprise customers required FedRAMP compliance to continue mission-critical operations. TrackVia had no path to authorization and no internal expertise. Missing this opportunity meant losing millions in contract value.
Led the initiative from infancy: selected the authorization path (Game Warden), contracted with DevOps team extension, re-platformed infrastructure to Kubernetes with Chainguard + FIPS 140-2, covered all 323 NIST 800-53 controls as technical lead, and presented the strategy and on-time project deliverables to the business and investment board
Dark Factory: the AI-native foundation we built is now compounding.
2024–2026 · AI & Engineering
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 their AI assistants.
Cut to 21 engineers — throughput hit an all-time high.
2023 · Leadership & ProcessBusiness headwinds required cutting roughly a quarter of the engineering team (28 → 21). 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 by Bow River Capital in March 2026, FedRAMP was the deal's core value proposition. The platform I built — rearchitected from EC2 to Kubernetes, FIPS 140-2 aligned, DoD DISA Moderate Equivalency in 11 months — was the reason they bought it. I 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.
Eleven years, by the numbers
Hard GitLab counts across an 11-year tenure — the hands-on record behind the leadership. Platform I ran at exit: 99.991% uptime · 5-min MTTR · 600M+ records · 244 enterprise customers.
Built for & trusted by
In their words
Excerpted from a letter of recommendation
Kyle is the kind of technical leader who makes the people around him better — not by commanding outcomes, but by setting a standard, sharing his thinking openly, and making the mission feel worth showing up for.
Kyle drove [TrackVia's FedRAMP authorization] to completion in twelve months — a timeline many organizations take two to three years to achieve. That outcome does not happen without someone with Kyle's technical depth, organizational tenacity, and follow-through.
If you're creating something
impactful and challenging —
let's talk.
Big bets. Deep in the work.
Outcomes that hold.