Summary
Cyrus Ghazanfar is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building consumer-focused fintech and marketplace products. As Co-founder and CTO of Beagle, he helped create the 401(k) search and rollover category, scaling the product to serve over three million users while tackling regulatory and data-integration complexity. Prior to Beagle he cofounded Pilota (acq), and has led engineering at startups spanning housing marketplaces and developer platforms, proving an ability to move from prototype to acquisition. He blends a strong academic foundation (Cornell M.Eng) with practical full-stack execution, shipping resilient systems across web, data, and integrations. Cyrus is drawn to inefficiencies in legacy financial systems and obsessively reduces friction for end users—turning messy data problems into polished products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Developer Web development, Software Developer Web development at Flatiron School
High School Diploma Economics, High School Diploma Economics at Cushing Academy
Master of Engineering - M.Eng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - M.Eng Computer Science at Cornell University
Master of Engineering - M.Eng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - M.Eng Computer Science at Cornell Tech
Bachelor's Degree Economics & Statistics, Bachelor's Degree Economics & Statistics at Pace University
French, Persian, English