Klyff Harlley
CTO & Co-Founder (Principal Engineer) at Rakonto Inc.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKlyff Harlley is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 26+ years in software engineering and a decade of formal experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across payments, banking, health-tech, cybersecurity and BPO. As CTO and principal engineer at Rakonto and prior senior roles at PayPal, Zup and others, he blends hands-on architecture with people leadership—growing engineering organizations from single digits to 100+ engineers and guiding cross-continental teams. He specializes in cloud migrations, high-performance distributed systems, and embedding AI/ML and cybersecurity into production SaaS products. Notable outcomes include enterprise-grade ECM and document digitization projects that processed hundreds of millions of records and a video-first knowledge platform used by the IOC and UN World Food Programme. Klyff combines pragmatic SDLC rigor (DoR/DoD, OKRs) with a talent-first approach that emphasizes continuous learning and measurable impact. Based in Los Angeles, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep legacy-to-cloud migration expertise that’s rare among CTOs who remain active in code and architecture.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnician in Eletronics Eletronics, Tecnician in Eletronics Eletronics at ETEC - Julio de MesquitaBS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Faculdade Santa Maria - RecifePontifical Catholic University of ParanáEstácio de Sá University
Portuguese, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
pact6
consumer-driven-contracts6
contract5
javascript4
asynchronous4
testing4
universe4
nodejs4
test-framework4
rad4
docker-desktop4
coldfusion4
mhealth3
maven3
pact-js3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
klyff/nuxeo-pdfannotation-viewer
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
klyff/rakonto-deploy-qa
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 7 months
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