Mike Thoun

Feb 2025 – Now

Greenside Ventures

Founder

Digital product studio and holding company in golf

Solo founder. It's a passion project I run on the side. Shipped GolfBod, the gym app for golfers, with an LLM pipeline that writes each golfer's training program and a coaching product for teaching pros. Putt Pitch Drive is out on iOS and Android, and Golf Tactics, a daily golf strategy game, opens November 2.

TypeScript · React Native · Expo · Next.js · Three.js · Supabase · LLMs · Stripe

Aug 2022 – Feb 20252y 7m

Autograph

Tech Lead, Data

Tom Brady's digital sports fandom startup (acquired by Future, 2025)

First data hire after the $170M Series B. Built the company's first data platform, with pipelines in production by day 60, then hired two senior engineers. About a third of the company used the self-service analytics.

Snowflake · dbt · Dagster · Fivetran · Hex · Lightdash · MongoDB · Neo4j · PostgreSQL

Apr 2021 – Aug 20221y 5m

Lob

Staff Software Engineer, Data

Y Combinator-backed mail API startup

Data lead. Rebuilt the core data infrastructure as one platform, with ingestion moved off Fivetran onto our own jobs in Airflow and the core data model redesigned as Kimball-style facts and dimensions in dbt. Every Looker dashboard in the company ran on it.

Airflow · dbt · Redshift · Looker · Kinesis · S3

Feb 2017 – May 20214y 4m

Outcome Health

Lead Data Engineer

Chicago unicorn health tech startup (merged with PatientPoint, 2021)

Designed and built the company's core data platform, batch and streaming, out of a Redshift setup DevOps had run on the side, and later moved it to Snowflake. Joined before there was a data team, then co-founded one and hired eight people into it.

Python · Redshift · Snowflake · Airflow · Confluent Kafka · Spark · S3

Apr 2016 – Now

Merino Wealth Management

ContractHead of Technology

Financial planning startup focused on equity compensation, socially responsible investing, and empowering women entrepreneurs

Part-time head of all the firm's technology, reporting to the CEO. Moved the CRM from Redtail to Salesforce. Brought in Viktor, an AI agent, and built its skills for meeting prep, follow-up, and data updates.

Salesforce · Black Diamond · Viktor

Jan 2009 – Feb 20178y 2m

Spot Trading

Lead Database Administrator

High-frequency options market maker

Started in operations, moved to the data team, and ended up leading it. Kept 75+ TB of market data running and carried the pager overnight so trading could start on time each morning.

SQL Server · MongoDB · Cassandra · Vertica · Redshift · RDS

Jul 2005 – Dec 20083y 6m

CME Group

Infrastructure Engineer II

World's largest derivatives exchange

Data center infrastructure. Built the team's app for planning changes and tracking physical assets down to the cable path.