Graham Goudeau
CTO at Acyclic
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Goudeau is a Boston-based technology leader and founder with 11 years building cloud-native systems, currently serving as CTO at Xenia while also founding Acyclic to reinvent general ledger software for multi-tenant organizations. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to open-source projects like the kgateway API/AI gateway—with product leadership roles at Stripe, Chewy, and Solo.io focused on Kubernetes, Envoy, and observability. Graham has a track record of shipping resilient distributed services, improving deployment and diagnostics tooling, and turning complex financial and infrastructure requirements into auditable, explainable systems. Notably, his startup work has already produced non-zero MRR and real-world accounting partnerships, reflecting both technical depth and commercial traction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Double Major: BS Computer Science and BS Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Double Major: BS Computer Science and BS Mathematics at Tufts University
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
envoyproxy7
convoy7
env7
dockers7
go7
docker7
whitespace6
elasticsearch6
cx-freeze6
haskell6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 75 commits, 87 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the API gateway. They implemented features to allow dynamic assignment of user IDs in containers, making changes to Helm templates. The user also enhanced the `glooctl` command-line tool for pod checking, improving the diagnostic capabilities. Furthermore, they worked on enabling the collection of usage statistics and configuring settings through Helm.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
GrahamGoudeau/tsIgetback
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:203 commits, 48 PRs, 88 pushes in 3 months
pythonledairportcoordinatecollege-students
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