Announcing Josh Kuhn as Pylon’s CTO

Josh was the first engineer to join Pylon. Over the past ~three years, he has helped design and build not just the core architecture behind our platform, but the exceptional engineering team that powers everything we do. That team is one of the things I’m most proud of at Pylon, and Josh has defined its culture, standards, and ambition.

Josh has earned his new role as CTO. He has now been promoted three times at Pylon, and in many ways, this latest one came from the team as much as it did from me. He has led with curiosity, conviction, and humility, and he’s earned the respect of everyone around him.

Josh was built for this. Before Pylon, he helped build an open source database and programming language with 100,000 contributors at RethinkDB, worked on core infrastructure at Stripe, and scaled the data infrastructure at a multi-billion dollar quant fund trading consumer loans. His experience sits at the intersection of nearly all our core technical challenges.

From day one at Pylon, Josh has brought a strong point of view to how we tackle the hardest technical challenges in mortgage infrastructure. He has a track record of taking non-obvious, non-linear approaches that appear contrarian, and are often right.

As CTO, Josh will make more of those bets and scale our technical teams to execute on them as we deliver on our mission to rewire mortgage from the ground-up.