Bruce Krysiak

Independent practice, founded 2008. Consulting through 2024; agentic systems full-time since November 2024.

• Magpie (Mar 2026 – present). Relationship intelligence for the agentic era: a voice-first app that turns spoken notes about people into a searchable relationship graph. On-device Whisper, FastAPI, BAML extraction, pgvector, React Native. ~4,200 commits in six months. Private beta on TestFlight.
• GovPal (Dec 2025 – present). Any news article becomes a delivered message to your actual representatives. Article extraction, jurisdiction resolution, agentic drafting, phone-verified identity. Live at govpal.app. ~950 commits across three repos, including an independent address-to-representative discovery and delivery layer and an open dataset of LA local officials.
• Also: PolicyReviewPro (AI homeowners-insurance policy review), ASURF (supply-chain security for AI agent skills), and board seats.

Ran the application layer of a $1B-valuation privacy-payments company, the payments network inside Signal’s messenger: roughly 22 engineers across four teams (web, mobile, core platform services, an acquired bot group).

• Inherited a Ruby web team with no web-product track record and a departing PM, and carried it through a company-wide move to Kotlin. Restarted the product, retrained the team, shipped in under three months.
• Took over the team maintaining MobileCoin’s payment integration inside Signal’s mobile apps and kept it moving upstream into Signal’s own codebase, winning roadmap slots and release windows in code we didn’t control.
• Built the management layer that replaced me: hired one engineering manager, promoted two from within, then moved to director scope while running platform directly.

Stabilized an enterprise referral-marketing platform and installed engineering practice in three months, then designed and soft-launched a React Native consumer shopping app in the next six. Distributed team of designers, engineers, and QA. Supported the July 2020 raise.

Built OneDegree, machine + human-learned influencer recommendation positioned against the ad-blocking wave. High-throughput Instagram and blog crawling, multi-tier caching, Twilio SMS. Shipped under Channelverse, HAVN, and fAds.

Joined via the Honk acquisition with a mandate to integrate. Migrated production to EC2, shipped TrueCar’s first iPhone app, ran the security audit of the legacy Java platform, architected the platform-strategy transition.

Vehicle discovery on social signal and ML recommendation. Alpha in one month, private beta in three, 140+ production releases under TDD/Agile. Acquired by TrueCar.

Combined BS/MEng in CS & EE, completed in four years. Concentration in AI; classes with Marvin Minsky. UROP in Bill Dally’s parallel processing group. Undergraduate coursework at Sloan. Built a drum machine from the chip level. Minor in writing. Media Lab thesis: “Networked StarLogo — A Social Exploration of Decentralized Control Systems.”