Timothy Bjorkman

About Timothy Bjorkman

Founding CTO who builds AI-native companies from zero-to-one and scales them to enterprise.3x CTO across PropTech, FinTech, and LegalTech - operating confidently from first commit to leading 120-engineer orgs.Delivering Agentic Automation for 1,400 legal instrument data models, and $350K/yr in customer cost savings.Currently Co-Founder & CTO at TalosTitle - an AI-native legal tech / prop tech technology platform automating title searches and document workflows through multi-agent LLM pipelines, vector database architectures, and NLP-driven document intelligence. Named PropTech Outlook Top AI Automation Software 2026. Processing documents per hour at 100x human throughput, delivering $350K/year in customer cost savings across 1,400+ automated legal instruments.Serial zero-to-one technical founder with three greenfield company builds: TalosTitle (AI-powered PropTech/LegalTech), Symple.com (trade finance FinTech), and Setscale (logistics/trade finance). Each built from first architecture diagram to revenue-generating product with distributed engineering teams across multiple geographies.VP Engineering at Clover Network (7 years): Built and scaled a 120-engineer worldwide organization across 63 active repositories and lines of Java microservices on Kubernetes/GCP infrastructure. Achieved 7-minute deployment cycles through CI/CD automation. Established blameless incident response (RCA) culture and short-TTL OKR frameworks for high-velocity iteration across the payments platform serving millions of merchants.Technical Depth: LLM infrastructure (OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, Vertex/Gemini), agentic AI workflows, vector databases, RAG pipelines, NLP/document intelligence, Kubernetes, GCP, microservices, domain-driven design, Python, Java/Spring, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code.Leadership Philosophy: Hands-on technical leader who codes daily alongside the team. Player-coach who mentors engineers, obsesses over product-market fit, and fosters cultures of ownership, rapid iteration, and continuous delivery.Seeking: Founding CTO, CTO-in-Residence, or Technical Partner roles at venture studios and VC portfolio companies. Particularly drawn to AI-native ventures across PropTech, FinTech, LegalTech, and adjacent regulated industries where zero-to-one technical leadership creates portfolio-wide leverage.Let\'s connect if you\'re a venture studio GP assembling founding teams, an investor evaluating AI-native PropTech, or an engineer who wants to build at the frontier of legal technology. DM me or visit talostitle.com.

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer Ai Native Leader Co-founder

   Talostitle

   Oct 2024 — Present · US

   Co-Founder & CTO Role: Building an AI-native legal technology platform that automates title insurance searches and document workflows - a vertical-specific industry disruption from first commit to revenue-generating product.AI Architecture & Technical Leadership:Architected AI-native platform from inception: multi-agent LLM pipelines (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex/Gemini), vector database architecture for semantic search, RAG-powered document retrieval, and NLP-driven classification, extraction, and routing workflows.Automated processing of 1,400+ legal title instruments through a document intelligence pipeline, delivering $350K/year in customer cost savings.Achieved sustained documents/hour processing capacity (300x human baseline) through three specialized LLMs (classification, extraction, language structure) with advanced OCR for handwritten documents.Named PropTech Outlook Top AI Automation Software 2026.Product & Company Building:Drove zero-to-one product development from concept through MVP to revenue-generating customers; achieved product-market fit with paying enterprise clients in the title insurance vertical.Established product vision, technical roadmap, and GTM strategy; built an optimized prospecting funnel and closing pipeline from concept to delivery.Recruited and led founding engineering, product, design, and legal expertise teams.Technical Stack: Quarkus, Spring AI, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, LangChain, OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, vector databases, RAG pipelines, NLP, microservices, CI/CD, observability.cycle.

Education

• North Park University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature/Letters

  1988 — 1993

Skills

• Software Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Java
• Xml
• Integration
• Web Services
• Git
• Linux
• Unleash High Performing Teams
• Foster Accountable Mindsets
• Own the Customer Experience
• Grow Exceptional Engineers
• Create Deep Team Cohesion
• Disrupt Stagnant Solutions
• Reward Spectacular Engineers
• Anneal Cross Functional Teams
• Design and Build Agile Engineering Organizations