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Mike Lyons

Engineer

Email | mdl0394@gmail.com

City | San Francisco

Site | MikeLyons.org

Github | github.com/frenchie4111

Experience

Hi Finance

CTO / Co-Founder

Canada | May 2025 - Present

  • Leading product and technology strategy at a fintech neo-bank helping post-secondary students in Canada secure funding for their education.

Major Technology

CTO / Co-Founder

San Francisco | Mar 2024 - May 2025

  • Co-founded pre-seed startup, raised $2.5M and worked hands-on with customers across commercial HVAC, fast-casual restaurants, and dental insurance.

Verkada

Head of Software, Intercom

San Francisco Bay Area | 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Grew a team of engineers to launch Verkada’s Intercom product line — built under a tight deadline and Verkada’s most successful product launch to date.

Dor Technologies

Head of Algorithms (AI/ML)
Lead Systems Architect
Cofounder

San Francisco | 2015 - 2021

  • Founding engineer. 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 across thousands of edge ML devices and drove insight for Dor’s customers.

CareerLabs

Technical Cofounder

San Francisco | 2015 - 2016

  • Lead CareerLabs’ team of engineers to build a scalable job search and employer rating platform. Launched careerlabs.com in 2015 (Closed 2017)

Mark One / MyVessyl

Software Engineer

San Francisco | 2014 – 2015

  • Designed and built the backend infrastructure that supported an AI driven consumer hardware device.

Apple

Software Engineering Co-op

Cupertino | 2013 - 2014

  • Improved the scalability of the MDM product line
  • Created a fullstack application in JS that processes hundreds of thousand of tickets in order to produce actionable insights.

InstallNet & Aertight Systems

Software Engineering Intern

Annapolis, MD | 2011 - 2012

  • Built several internal business tools to automate some repetative tasks

Skills

Software Engineering

Python, NodeJS, Go, C, Docker, AWS, SQL, NoSQL
Firmware, Backend, Frontend, Whatever gets the job done

Machine Learning

Python, Numpy, Pandas, Tensorflow, Keras