Barrett Lyon
Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Mode Company
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarrett Lyon is a serial entrepreneur and technology CEO with over a decade of experience founding and scaling infrastructure, security, and media platforms that have shaped the modern Internet. He created landmark projects like the Opte Internet Map (in MoMA's permanent collection) and pioneered the DDoS mitigation industry with Prolexic, then went on to found or incubate companies acquired by Akamai, F5, Fortinet, and Tata Communications. Barrett blends engineering depth—hands-on in security, distributed systems, and CDN/video delivery—with a strong design and art sensibility through ventures like LyonLabs and MegaLasers. As an investor and advisor he backs early-stage startups while continuing to run stealth ventures focused on scaling the Internet. Notably, his background in philosophy and photography informs a rare combination of aesthetic-driven product thinking and ruthless technical execution. Based in Miami, he remains active as a builder, artist, and hacker who turns ambitious R&D into commercial platforms and cultural artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
broken spanish
Github Skills (23)
graph-layout10
censorship-circumvention10
proxy-server10
security10
tunneling10
tcp10
cdn9
firewall9
golang9
speech8
webcam7
mdns6
youtube6
ffmpeg5
opencv5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TheOpteProject/LGL
May 2014 - Oct 2022
Large Graph Layout
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 8 years 6 months
graph-layout
doxx/doxx.net
Dec 2024 - Apr 2026
Freedom of speech and privacy platform
Contributions:33 releases, 2 PRs, 127 pushes in 1 year 3 months
speech
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