Bruce Krysiak

Independent product and engineering practice, founded 2008. Technical consulting through 2024. Since November 2024, agentic systems full-time.

• Magpie (Mar 2026 – present). Relationship intelligence for the agentic era: a voice-first app that turns spoken notes about people into a structured, searchable relationship graph. React Native/Expo with on-device Whisper transcription, FastAPI backend, BAML-driven LLM extraction, PostgreSQL + pgvector semantic search, durable async job pipeline. Monorepo across backend, mobile, and web. ~4,200 commits in six months. Private beta on TestFlight at magpie.is.
• GovPal (Dec 2025 – present). AI civic engagement: any news article becomes a delivered message to your actual representatives. Article extraction, jurisdiction resolution, agentic drafting, phone-verified identity. Live at govpal.app, delivering via Resistbot today. ~950 commits across three repos. Underneath it, govpal-reach: an independent address-to-representative discovery and multi-channel delivery layer, built to replace that dependency and working in test. Census Geocoder, Google Civic, and Open States for discovery; Postmark email and Playwright web-form delivery; Twilio OTP; encrypted PII. And open-local-people: an open dataset of LA county, city, and neighborhood-council officials in Open States format: the local layer national civic datasets omit.
• PolicyReviewPro (2025 – present). AI analysis of homeowners insurance policies: upload, guided intake, coverage-gap identification, recommendations. Next.js/TypeScript. Visual prototype at policyreviewpro.com.
• ASURF. Supply-chain security for Git-based AI agent skills: an update and revocation framework with a reference implementation.
• Athenium. A proposal for a digital civic commons.
• Trackster (in progress). Takes a DJ playlist and finds the highest-quality source for every track.

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, and an acquired Telegram bot group).

• Inherited a web team of Ruby developers 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, and shipped in under three months while developing and promoting an EM to run the day-to-day.
• Directly managed the middle-tier platform team bridging the core crypto engine to web, mobile, and API surfaces, the platform tooling team, and the mobile team until a dedicated EM was hired.
• Took over the team maintaining MobileCoin’s payment integration inside Signal’s mobile apps and kept it moving upstream into Signal’s own codebase: technical integration plus sustained negotiation for roadmap slots and release windows in a codebase we didn’t control.
• Took over an acquired bot team, a fully async, self-organized group, and kept their founder on as dev manager through the transition. When the company later cut the bot strategy, placed those engineers across other teams, several onto unfamiliar languages and toolsets.
• Built the management layer that replaced me: hired a mobile engineering manager, promoted EMs from within on the web and bot teams, then shifted to director-level scope while continuing to run platform directly.

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

Built OneDegree, a machine + human-learned influencer-recommendation product positioned against the ad-blocking wave. Multi-tier caching, high-throughput Instagram and blog crawling, Twilio SMS, modular ES6 client, JWT auth. Shipped under Channelverse, HAVN, and fAds.

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

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

Combined BS/MEng, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, completed in four years. Concentration in artificial intelligence. Classes with Marvin Minsky. UROP in Bill Dally’s parallel processing group. Undergraduate coursework at Sloan. Designed and built a drum machine up from the chip level. Minor in writing.

Media Lab thesis: “Networked StarLogo — A Social Exploration of Decentralized Control Systems.”