# Kyle Wanamaker

> Fractional CTO | Creating sustainable solutions to complex problems

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylewanamaker

I am a changemaker who leads with kindness, empathy, and respect. I value fast-moving teams who operate with autonomy toward ambitious goals. I'm comfortable working across the stack, and have experience in Java, Python, TypeScript, Dart/Flutter, Objective-C, and Swift at Google.

At Google, I wore many hats. I've been an individual contributor, TL, people manager, and CTO of an incubated project. Prior to Google, I worked in Spam & Security at Tumblr on DMCA and CSAM takedowns, and was part of the early engineering team that got Rent the Runway to 1 million users.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Google Store Retail @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Mobile fullstack engineer with a custom Flutter Point-of-Sale (POS) app on Android and a Java, Spanner, and gRPC backend. The Retail engineering team owns front-of-house and back-of-house systems for Google's 8 brick-and-mortar retail store locations across the USA.

- Store Launch Ownership: Lead engineer responsible for configuring and launching Chicago and Santa Monica retail locations, including all system integration testing, configuration management, and production readiness checks.

- Google Fi Integration: Delivered real-time pricing integration between Google Fi and Google Store point-of-sale systems, enabling dynamic carrier plan pricing for in-store Pixel purchases across all retail locations

- Pixel Watch Cellular Promotion: Led Google Fi integration enabling automated cellular data provisioning for Pixel Watch purchases; promotion drove significant adoption of cellular models among retail customers

- Security & Fraud Prevention: Implemented per-employee request quota system across all point-of-sale devices to limit blast radius of potential device compromise or insider threats

### Founder @ TBD
Jan 2023 – Present
Building something new on iOS

### Tech Lead - Stealth-mode Project in Area 120 - ML + Generative AI for Small Businesses @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
TL for team using generative AI, like Dall-E, and Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, help small businesses with their branding & marketing.

Area 120 was Google's in-house incubator for launching new products.

### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead for Gallery.io Apps @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
As Technical Lead for Gallery Apps, I help ensure technical excellence and successful delivery of Gallery's iOS & Android apps, and Gallery's Sketch plugin. 

I collaborate with our cross-functional team of designers, product and program managers, and multiple engineers on our team to coordinate work, release schedules, and product roadmaps.

### Software Engineer, Gallery.io Plugins @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
As an engineer working on Gallery's Plugins, I help designers showcase their work in Gallery from the applications they're already using. I primarily work in TypeScript, Swift and Objective-C to deliver a MacOS plugin for Sketch. 

Key Accomplishments:
 - Adding analytics to provide stakeholders with better insight to usage and retention
 - Releasing click-through prototyping, allowing for more immersive experiences
 - Improving build and release hygiene by adding tests, automating painful processes, and adding documentation

### Software Engineer, Gallery.io @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Gallery Initial Launch (2018-2019)
 - Our small engineering team (~5) launched Gallery.io to the public in 2018
 - I designed and implemented many critical components: search, file storage, database schemas, data retention policies, API interfaces, MapReduce jobs, asynchronous job queues, permissions, etc.
 - Led a culture of testing; we maintain ~99% test coverage whereas the previous project was significantly lower.

Technologies:
- Google Cloud Platform
- Python
- JavaScript
- Protocol Buffers
- Microservices
- REST
- API Design
- Bazel / Starlark build system
- Software testing with Python (using unittest) and JavaScript (using Jasmine)

### Software Engineer, Design Tools @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
As an engineer in design tools, I work on an internal design application used by >10% of all employees. I work within a small team primarily delivering server-side features in Python. Some accomplishments include, improved loading performance using background loading and caching, and adding a new feedback features allowing better reviews.

Technologies:
- Python
- JavaScript
- Non-relational databases (NoSQL)
- Google Cloud

### Software Engineer @ Tumblr
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area
Member of Tumblr's Content Intelligence Group focusing on spam and web security

- Build tools and workflows to support Tumblr's terms of service and community guidelines
- Evaluate security vulnerabilities and fix as needed
- Lots of other cool stuff

### Software Developer @ Rent The Runway
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY
PHP LAMP stack using Drupal 5

- Developed user-facing and internal features using MySQL, Memcached, PHP5, and JavaScript.
- Built web interfaces for order management with custom Drupal modules.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Finance, Computer Science
Lincoln University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kylewanamaker

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Last updated: 2026-03-29