Summary
Justin Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, AI-enabled products across startups and enterprise clients. As CTO North America at Armakuni and founder of ventures like Yac and Cleft, he combines hands-on product building with strategic go-to-market and fundraising experience, having raised over $10M and played a key role in a biometric fintech NASDAQ IPO. He has driven ARR growth to $35M as COO of Simform and led product work for major brands through his design studio SoFriendly, showing a rare mix of engineering, design and operational leadership. Justin is also an inventor with 20+ patents in security and biometrics and continues to ship AI-first consumer tools—Cleft was singled out by The Verge and recognized by Andreessen Horowitz. Based in Orlando, he focuses on pragmatic, scalable cloud and AI solutions that move teams from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interpersonal Organizational Communication, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interpersonal Organizational Communication at University of Central Florida