Tyler Thomas
Chief AI Officer at Kora
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Thomas is a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur with 25+ years of hands-on experience building products from concept to scale, now serving as Chief AI Officer at Kora Power in Austin. He blends systems architecture, mobile and cloud development, and PKI-driven device security while using AI as a force multiplier to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. A lifelong builder, he’s co-founded and led technology at fast-growing ventures including Trifecta Nutrition and several gaming and fitness startups, shipping popular consumer apps and complex subscription platforms. Tyler is also a pragmatic full-stack developer, self-taught across Python/Django, C#/Java, C/C++, and JavaScript, and has contributed backend work to well-known open-source projects like CodaLab Competitions. He brings a rare combination of executive leadership and individual contributor fluency—designing visions, writing code, and assembling teams that make them real. Outside product work he channels hobbyist game development and modding into creative problem solving that informs his product designs.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSCE, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Computer Networking/Information Technology, MSCE, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Computer Networking/Information Technology at TriNet Networking and Training
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (8)
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
python10
django10
csv-parse9
csv-parsing9
html-template8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
codalab/codalab-competitions
May 2017 - Aug 2022
CodaLab Competitions
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 464 commits, 192 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the CodaLab Competitions repository by implementing and modifying backend functionalities. Their work involved parsing and processing CSV files into a graph format, which was then utilized in the web application's front-end. The user also focused on the integration of detailed scoring and display, by modifying the code in several areas including views.py and templates.
benchmarksartificial-intelligencesciencemachine-learning
Tthomas63/gpy_site
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
A Dockerized Django project integrating Steam for authentication and implementation and providing forums, remote rcon access to source servers, and other planned features. Aiming to be an all in one community site.( Forums, remote admin, steam auth, etc )
Contributions:40 PRs, 220 pushes, 40 branches in 5 months
pythondjangosteam-authaimingdockerized
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