Kyle Turner

SVP, Product & Engineering

Target: VP / SVP Engineering or CTO · Denver or remote

heykyleturner@gmail.com  ·  linkedin.com/in/kylerturner  ·  Denver, CO (open to 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 2026

TrackVia · 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 2023

TrackVia · 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 2022

TrackVia · 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 2021

TrackVia · 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 2018

TrackVia · Denver, CO

  • Led technical design and delivery for mobile features; mentored junior engineers through code review

Software Engineer II — iOS

Jun 2015 – Jul 2017

TrackVia · Denver, CO

  • Core iOS app development and feature delivery · RISE Award 2016

Earlier Career — 2000–2015

2012–2015 Co-Founder, Nightlife — iOS/Android social app; 150K+ downloads; venture-backed
~2010 CARFAX — Built CARFAX's first iPhone app; $50K revenue in month one
2000–2012 15+ years in software — mobile-first, consumer and enterprise products across iOS, Android, and web