Kyle Thornton
Chief Technology Officer at Cowrie
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Thornton is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with a decade of experience building and scaling embedded and autonomous systems across startups and major engineering organizations. He’s led software and verification efforts at Tesla and Wisk, co-founded and served as CTO at Ration, and now heads technology at Cowrie, blending deep system-level engineering with product-driven leadership. Kyle has also run Americas customer success for Ledger and led education initiatives, giving him a rare combination of technical credibility and customer-facing leadership. Based in Portland, he brings hands-on experience from power systems to autonomous aircraft and hardware security, and is comfortable shifting between low-level verification and executive strategy. An alum of University of Florida and the 42 Silicon Valley Piscine, he pairs formal engineering training with hacker-school grit and startup execution.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Piscine C - May 2018, Piscine C - May 2018 at 42 Silicon ValleyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (96)
firefox10
stripe-customer-portal10
targeting10
plug10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
fantom9
browser9
bytecode9
api9
django-admin9
bsc9
metamask9
blockchain9
ethereum9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
k-thornton/loamy
Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
Loamy marketing landing page and Women Like Me app.
Contributions:119 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
k-thornton/whatsabi
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Extract the ABI (and resolve proxies, and get other metadata) from Ethereum bytecode, even without source code.
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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