Mike Lyons
Founding Engineer · Startup CTO
Email | mdl0394@gmail.com
City | San Francisco
Site | https://MikeLyons.org/
Github | https://github.com/frenchie4111
AI × firmware × software. I build products people love, and I’m looking to push what hardware can do.
Experience
hi finance
CTO / Co-Founder
Canada | May 2025 - Present
- Lead engineering as co-founder of a Canadian fintech. Built a custom agent harness and software factory that writes and ships its own code, so 1 engineer and 2 operations staff run three mobile apps, a web app, and an in-house CRM.
- Shipped an AI grant application system that lets any university student claim student aid from their phone, without ever opening the original application site. Over 3,000 students have used it to claim more than $4M in funding.
Stealth AI Startup
CTO / Co-Founder
San Francisco | Mar 2024 - May 2025
- Co-founded a pre-seed startup and raised $2.5M to put LLMs to work in sectors that had barely been touched by them: commercial HVAC, fast-casual restaurants, and dental insurance. Led the technical work and ran customer discovery in each.
Verkada
Head of Software, Intercom
San Francisco Bay Area | 2021 - Dec 2023
- Built and launched Verkada’s Intercom product line, its most successful launch ever at $14M in year one, hiring and leading the 8 engineers who shipped it on a tight deadline.
Dor Technologies
Head of AI
Cofounder
San Francisco | 2015 - 2021
- Shipped a battery-powered, neural-net-driven IoT device deployed across thousands of retail sites as a founding engineer, later leading the AI team as it grew to 10.
- Built the data pipeline and fullstack analytics platform that processed millions of events from thousands of edge ML devices.
Mark One / MyVessyl
Software Engineer
San Francisco | 2014 – 2015
- Designed and built the backend infrastructure behind an AI-driven consumer hardware device.
Apple
Software Engineering Co-op
Cupertino | 2013 - 2014
- Built a fullstack JS application that turns hundreds of thousands of tickets into usable reports, and improved the scalability of the MDM product line.
Earlier
- Technical Cofounder at CareerLabs (2015 – 2016). Software engineering intern at InstallNet & Aertight Systems, Annapolis MD (2011 – 2012).
Open Source
Ness
Creator & Primary Author
Open Source | 2026 - Present
- An open-source IDE for coding with agents: parallel agent sessions across git worktrees, each with its own terminal, shell, and a browser the agent drives directly.