Kyle Mistele
Chief Technology Officer at BellTower Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Mistele is a CTO and security-minded technologist with a decade of experience building AI-enabled, cloud-native systems and secure infrastructure from startups to advisory roles. Based in San Francisco, he has led engineering and product teams, designed microservices and IaC deployments, and implemented AI agent serving and isolation strategies for distributed inference at projects like Naptha and vLLM. An active open-source contributor, his vLLM work enabled OpenAI-compatible tool streaming for real-time agentic applications—a feature adopted across top AI labs and toolchains. He pairs hands-on systems engineering (Docker, firecracker, AWS CDK) with offensive security expertise (OSCP, penetration testing), making him equally fluent in building platforms and hardening them. His background founding AI consultancies and advising firms on architecture and cyber best practices gives him a pragmatic, product-focused perspective on deploying safe, scalable AI.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Cyber Security, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Cyber Security at Southern Methodist University
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Github Skills (188)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CodeLighthouse/sdk-python
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 34 reviews, 40 commits in 4 months
Constellate-AI/vllm
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Contributions:154 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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