MichaelΒ Frye
CTO at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Frye is a CTO and serial entrepreneur with 11+ years of experience building production-grade data and AI systems that process hundreds of millions to billions of records. He currently designs multi-agent LLM systems for corporate intelligence, entity resolution, and autonomous research used by Fortune 500 clients, and is leading a stealth startup in B2B data infrastructure. Michael has a strong track record re-architecting high-volume pipelines (82% cost reduction, 74% faster processing) and founded BigPicture.io and Benchmark Intelligence, both acquired in 2024. His background spans fintech, insurance telematics, and enterprise AIβhaving eliminated critical scaling bottlenecks at Aisera and built petabyte-scale pipelines at Quanata. An active contributor to backend stability and security in open-source projects, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic technical due diligence for M&A and VC deals. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep expertise in entity linking, NLP, and real-time data infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at Oakland University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
microservices-application10
javascript10
microservices10
expressjs10
api-gateway10
back-end-development10
security9
redis9
oauth8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ExpressGateway/express-gateway
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
A microservices API Gateway built on top of Express.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the codebase's stability and security. Their contributions included cleaning up credential removal logic to prevent potential data leaks, fixing linting errors for code quality, and merging branches. They also updated the user deletion process to remove user scopes and used async/await for improved code readability. Further improvements included addressing a deprecated policy and implementing a modifier policy.
api-gatewayexpressjsmicroservicesexpress-middlewareoauth2
mfrye/email-finder
Dec 2016 - Feb 2019
Email Finder - Easily find any email address for free!
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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