Topher Cyll Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Founded Cognius as incubated spin-out from Cogo Labs.• Grew revenue to eight figures TTM, with multiple 2X growths attributed to engineering.• Recruited nine-member engineering department from scratch.• Promoted hires internally into VP of Eng, Director of Eng, Lead Eng, and Principal Eng roles.• Developed major parts of our original product and prototyped strategic changes.• Moved systems to scalable AWS infrastructure from managed colo.• Transitioned our systems from a monolithic codebase toward a microservices architecture.• Scaled to 1B events/day in BI pipeline and 30MM reqs/day for real-time job recommendations.• Tech: Ruby, Python, Scala, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Redshift, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Re-recruited back into CogoLabs to run Product Engineering.• Hired nine-member Product Engineering group from scratch.• Built, launched, validated, and grew minimum viable businesses for Cogo Labs.• Worked in multiple major industries: staffing, automotive, insurance, personal finance.• Two of my projects became profitable, ongoing business units, including Cognius (see above). • Built autos-focused ad network and brought in the first $3MM ARR of customers as sales engineer.• Promoted from Lead Engineer to Director.• Tech: Ruby, Rails, Python, MySQL, Redis, and Nginx.

• First hire at Tsumobi, joining two founders just after seed funding.• Built a runtime for desktop and mobile phone applications designed for distributed applications, self-healing software, live updates, and cross platform compatibility.• Using that foundation, built Tsumobi's peer-to-peer sharing application, Skynet Loves You.• Wrote compilers, virtual machines, peer-to-peer routing systems, databases, and social phone apps.• Heavy use of asynchronous IO, event driven code, the Actor model, and distributed programming.• Organized software releases, coordinated development projects, and communicated with users.• Tech: Java, JavaME, JavaFX, Ruby.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

(Cogo Labs was formerly named Adverplex)• Rebuilt ad management systems to precisely manage hundreds of thousands of paid text ads.• Supported quantitative ad campaigns to acquire users for incubated businesses.• Implemented data-access layer of Cogo Labs’ multi-terabyte (remember in 2007, this was huge!) database.• Built web-console for fine-tuning campaigns.• Tech: Python, Pylons, MySQL.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed tools to analyze performance of next generation Intel CPU.• Processed and aggregated modelling data generated on 6,000 machine compute cluster.• Optimized microcode build system bringing build time from 20+ min to 30 seconds.• Wrote multithreaded memory consistency tests to validate cycle accurate CPU simulators.• Implemented system to remind entire Oregon CPU Arch Team of all tracked issues and deadlines.• Tech: Ruby, Perl, MySQL, SCONS, Make.