---
title: "Kyle Mistele"
category: "people"
role: "CTO"
company: "HumanLayer"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-mistele"
twitter: "https://x.com/0xBlacklight"
website: "https://blacklight.sh"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Kyle Mistele

## Profile
CTO at [[humanlayer|HumanLayer]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-mistele)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/0xBlacklight)
- [Website](https://blacklight.sh)

## Biography
Recovering Red-Team security engineer & ATM hacker, now CTO at [[humanlayer|HumanLayer]] helping teams escape the vibe slop dopamine casino and ship production grade code with AI. Yaps about distributed systems engineering, real-time sync, virtual filesystems, and the SF pizza scene.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kyle-mistele-loop-engineering-from-first-principles]] — Loop Engineering from first principles (2026-06-29, 3:45pm-4:05pm)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kyle-mistele-loop-engineering-from-first-principles|Loop Engineering from first principles]]

### Media Signals
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