Todd Sundsted
CTO at Gaiascope, Inc. / Acquired by ENGIE North America
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Sundsted is a seasoned CTO and hands-on engineering leader with 20 years of experience scaling product and platform teams from garage startups through multiple acquisitions and an IPO. He specializes in maturing data- and AI-driven platforms for high-stakes domains—power markets and maritime emissions—while keeping teams lean and delivery-focused. Todd has repeatedly led technical due diligence during acquisitions and driven reliability and cost improvements via IaC, orchestration (Dagster), Kubernetes, and strategic repackaging of core algorithms. He combines deep engineering chops (including contributions to the Crystal language compiler) with proven talent-building: hiring VPs, reorganizing around product teams, and growing engineering organizations across time zones. Known for pragmatic architecture shifts—monolith-to-microservices, containerization, and library extraction—he pairs vision with measurable operational wins like halving pipeline incidents and cutting AWS spend. Based in New York, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade discipline and a knack for translating complex physics and ML into production software.
20 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science with Honors Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science with Honors Electrical Engineering at Gonzaga University
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Github Skills (20)
crystal-lang10
http10
compiler-compiler10
file-upload10
compiler10
multipart-formdata10
programming-language9
rest9
floating-point8
float328
macros7
logging7
binary-compatibility6
jruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-lang/crystal
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Todd contributed to the core functionality of the Crystal programming language, primarily focusing on optimizing and refining existing features. Their work involved improving the `Array#fill` method for zero values, supporting unsigned integer types in logging contexts, and ensuring the correct handling of floating-point numbers in printing. They also addressed documentation issues and made changes related to macros and type variables within the compiler.
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toddsundsted/host_meta
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 releases, 35 commits, 112 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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