Kyle Pounder, PhD

Chief Technology Officer at Wealth.com

Gilbert, Arizona, United States

About Kyle Pounder, PhD

Kyle Pounder, PhD is Chief Technology Officer at Wealth.com. Location: Gilbert, Arizona, United States.

I operate at the intersection of complex mathematical rigor and high-velocity business execution. As a PhD Mathematician turned startup CTO and Chief AI & Data Officer, I specialize in elastic leadership—equally comfortable steering product strategy for a 50+ person engineering organization or diving deep into the architecture of an enterprise-grade LLM evaluation pipeline. My Core Pillars: Scale & Hypergrowth: Guided Wealth.com from $0 to multi-million CARR, managing engineering, security, and data functions through a Google Ventures-led Series A ($30M) and a Charles Schwab-led Series B ($65M). Enterprise AI & Data Infrastructure: Expertise building robust RAG architectures, structured extraction pipelines, and end-to-end data pipelines (dbt, data lakes) that bridge the gap between bleeding-edge tech and strict compliance (SOC 2 Type 2). Big Tech & Academic Foundation: Rooted in a strong technical foundation (PhD in Mathematics) with additional experience in data science at Meta and enterprise risk modeling at LexisNexis.

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Compliance Management

Additional experience

  • Vice President of Data & Analytics Engineering

    Wealth.com

    July 2022 – October 2024

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, University of Arizona
  • Master of Education - MEd, University of Notre Dame