Mike Lyons

Engineering Leader

Email | mdl0394@gmail.com

City | San Francisco

Site | https://MikeLyons.org/

Github | https://github.com/frenchie4111

Experience

CTO / Co-Founder

Canada | May 2025 - Present

Lead engineering as co-founder. 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.

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.

Head of Software, Intercom

San Francisco Bay Area | 2021 - Dec 2023

Hired, mentored, and led a team of 8 engineers that launched Verkada’s Intercom product line on a tight deadline. Verkada’s most successful product launch to date, at $14M in year one.

Head of AI
Cofounder

San Francisco | 2015 - 2021

Founding engineer, later hiring, mentoring, and leading the AI team as it grew to 10. Shipped a battery-powered, neural-net-driven IoT device that tracks customer foot traffic across thousands of retail sites.
Built the data pipeline and fullstack analytics platform that processed millions of events from thousands of edge ML devices.

Software Engineer

San Francisco | 2014 – 2015

Designed and built the backend infrastructure behind an AI-driven consumer hardware device.

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.

Technical Cofounder at CareerLabs (2015 – 2016). Software engineering intern at InstallNet & Aertight Systems, Annapolis MD (2011 – 2012).

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.