Bob Tinker
CEO, Board Member, Co-Founder at Survival to Thrival
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolBob Tinker is a serial CEO and operator with 18+ years of leadership building and scaling B2B software businesses from zero to market leaders, including founding MobileIron and taking it public. As CEO and co-founder of BlueRock.io he now focuses on securing agentic AI workflows—bringing product, go-to-market, and engineering together to make autonomous agents safe and auditable. He also runs operator-led buyouts at Metamorph Partners and chairs Fluxx, applying hands-on operational playbooks to SaaS turnarounds and growth. A published co-author on startup scaling and “go-to-market fit,” he blends narrative-driven coaching with board-level governance. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs a Stanford MBA and systems engineering background with a tinkerer’s hacker ethos—interested in solarpunk ideas and practical tooling for developer and security communities. Notably, he bridges deep go-to-market instincts with technical product sensibilities to move companies from PMF to escape velocity.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBS, Systems Engineering, BS, Systems Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (9)
64-bit9
proofs9
exploit7
domain-controller6
windows-server6
twitter5
bash4
windows4
bitcoin3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tinkersec/scratchpad
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
Proofs of Concept. Just fucking around.
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 4 months
proofs
tinkersec/writerdeckOS
Apr 2025 - Jun 2026
writerdeckOS: Converts any 64-bit PC (amd64) based laptop into a writer deck, or a device solely designed around distraction free writing.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 12 comments in 1 year 3 months
64-bit
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