# Connor Chevli

> Co-founder and CTO at Walton, building autonomous legal transactions.

Engineering Lead. Bay Area, CA.

- Website: https://connorchevli.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/connorch
- GitHub: https://github.com/connorch
- Email: connorchev@gmail.com
- Resume: https://connorchevli.com/connor-chevli-resume.pdf

## Experience

### Walton - Co-Founder & CTO

Mar 2026 - Present. https://walton.ai

Autonomous legal transactions. Backed by Afore.

- Took the product from prototype to live users and LOIs from 4 law firms in 7 months.
- Built a durable, model-agnostic agent harness on Mastra: ~70 tools, hour-plus runs, upstream fixes.
- Created docx editing agents with workflows, parallel subagents, edit merging, and context compaction.
- Designed a workspace engine to bring Git-style drafting to lawyers for terms, documents, signatures.
- Shipped the deal workflow end to end: signature packets, party management, checklists, activity feed.

### Hyperbolic - Frontend Lead & Full-Stack Engineer

Jan 2025 - Mar 2026. https://hyperbolic.ai

GPU marketplace and serverless inference for open-weight models.

- Led frontend for a 5-engineer team and designed the Next.js + tRPC monorepo.
- Architected a full-stack GPU rental aggregator over Nebius, Voltage Park, DigitalOcean, and more.
- Built an inference playground (chat, vision, image, audio) with AI SDK, OpenRouter, and shadcn/ui.
- Shipped enterprise foundations: team accounts, roles and permissions, multi-key API access.
- Published open-source TypeScript SDKs (AI SDK provider and API client).

### Ava Labs - Tech Lead & Staff Software Engineer, Web Team

Nov 2021 - Mar 2024. https://core.app

Company behind Avalanche, a network of interconnected blockchains.

- Founded and managed the Web team: grew it to 10 engineers, ran 1:1s and reviews, set the roadmap.
- Led engineering of the Core dApp, Subnet Explorer, bridges, and staking tools on a shared UI library.
- Designed the TypeScript monorepo behind all Web team apps: shared packages, serverless APIs.
- Awarded by peers for outstanding dedication, resilience, adaptability, and performance under pressure.

## Earlier

### Mar 2024 - Jan 2025

- **Enclave Markets**, Contract Software Engineer. Encrypted crypto exchange.
- **Loreis**, Co-Founder. Decentralized wiki platform.

### 2017 - 2021

- **Surjon**, Founding Software Engineer. Angel-backed feedback platform for surgical residents.
- **iRacing**, Frontend Software Engineer. React + Electron racing sim dashboard.
- **Wayfair**, Software Engineer. Promotions team. Cut page load time by 700ms.

## Projects

- **vaut.dev**: Private file host for agent output on Cloudflare Workers + R2, with a CLI.
- **fleetfizz**: Ships my agent skills, instructions, and CLIs to all my machines in one command.
- **sbrain**: Agent framework for maintaining my LLM wiki.
- **bambu-print**: Agent skill and CLI that turns "print me X" into a finished 3D print.

## Skills

- **AI and agents**: AI SDK, OpenRouter, Mastra, Inngest
- **Frontend**: TypeScript, React, Next.js, TanStack Start, Vite, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, React Query, Zustand
- **Backend**: Node, Bun, Hono, tRPC/oRPC, OpenAPI, Zod, Better Auth, Clerk, Drizzle, Convex
- **Infra and data**: Postgres (Neon, Supabase, pgvector), Redis, Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS ECS, Serverless

## Speaking

- **The Future of Multi-Chain dApps**, Avalanche Summit, Barcelona, May 2023
- **Web3 dApp Development Workshop**, Avalanche House, Berlin, May 2022
- **Web3 Frontend Design**, Subnet Show, YouTube, May 2022

## Education

- **Case Western Reserve University**, BA in Psychology, Honors, 2011 - 2015
- **SUNY Buffalo**, Computer Science coursework, 2015 - 2016
- **Hack Reactor**, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, 2016

Ski, travel, 3D print, learn. Creator at my core.