Kyle Turner
SVP, Product & Engineering
Target: VP / SVP Engineering or CTO · Denver or remote
Engineering leader with 11 years driving organization-wide P&E strategy at TrackVia while remaining hands-on in the codebase. Led FedRAMP Ready certification in 11 months as technical lead. Drove AI transformation from 40% to 95%+ AI-assisted code in 12 months, tripling MR throughput. Owned the 2023 workforce restructuring and the subsequent team that set all-time velocity records. Served as primary P&E lead for the March 2026 PE acquisition by Bow River Capital. The strategy and the code came from the same person.
Experience
SVP, Product & Engineering
Aug 2023 – Jun 2026TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Led 20-person P&E org (Engineering, DevOps, InfoSec, IT & Compliance, Product); reported directly to CEO
- Drove FedRAMP Ready + DoD DISA Moderate Equivalency in 11 months as technical lead; government market cited as primary acquisition value driver in March 2026 PE exit
- Owned company-wide AI transformation "Intelligent Teams": AI-assisted code 40% → 95%+ in 12 months; Q1 2026 MR throughput +274% YoY (191 → 714); deployed 3 autonomous agentic pipelines (Dark Factory)
- Decision-maker in 2023 workforce restructuring (28 → 21 engineers); throughput rose to all-time high (1.7× previous best); promoted to SVP same month
- Closed largest upsell & TCV in company history — 6-figure upsell to 7-figure ACV; delivered Workato integration + AUS hosting ahead of contractual milestones
- Primary P&E lead for PE due diligence: 500+ evidence items, 5 review domains, board presentation to Bow River Capital
Vice President of Engineering
Apr 2022 – Aug 2023TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Unified 4 engineering teams (Web, Platform, Mobile, QA) under single org model and delivery process
- Led full GitLab migration and SDLC modernization; decoupled Web from Platform deploys; MySQL 5.7 → 8.0; replaced Jenkins with GitLab CI/CD — delivered +70% release velocity, +52% ops delivery YoY
- Launched Public Forms (net-new revenue capability): 91K submissions year one, $100K+ supported upsell ARR
- Drove platform reliability to 99.991% uptime serving 240+ enterprise customers and 600M+ records
Director, Software Engineering — Mobile
Jan 2021 – Apr 2022TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Led mobile team; delivered FasTrack — photo-to-form automation using AWS Textract + SageMaker · TrackVia's first ML product
- Formalized Branded Mobile App product line: automated white-label pipeline deploying customer-branded iOS & Android apps to customers' own App Store accounts
Software Engineering Manager — Mobile
Jul 2018 – Jan 2021TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Drove and built full RxSwift architecture rewrite of monolithic Objective-C iOS app: 11 independent modules + JavaScriptCore business engine; foundation for 1,100+ subsequent mobile MRs
- Established mobile CI/CD automation; built GitLab pipeline replacing manual builds
- 1st place, 2019 company hackathon; result drove CEO roadmap change
Senior Software Engineer — iOS
Jul 2017 – Jul 2018TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Led technical design and delivery for mobile features; mentored junior engineers through code review
Software Engineer II — iOS
Jun 2015 – Jul 2017TrackVia · Denver, CO
- Core iOS app development and feature delivery · RISE Award 2016