About

Cyril Joy Mangalan at work with a colleague

Background

As CTO at cove.dev, I built the platform that took the company from $0 to hundreds of thousands in ARR and tens of millions in valuation. Before cove, I was an early engineer at marketfeed (YC S21), where I helped grow the product to $16M+ AUM and drove the company's adoption of Go — which they now use for all their automated trading infrastructure.


I've been coding since middle school. Built the cove.dev platform end-to-end in Go and React. Drove gRPC and Protocol Buffer adoption at marketfeed. Founded ZIGG, where I built cross-platform mobile apps in Flutter, a Go backend, and managed a team of 6. I build across the full stack — backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and infrastructure.


Ran the Manipal half marathon. Competed in national-level athletics representing my high school. Diamond rank in Overwatch. I read philosophy and political theory, rave to techno, and lift.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University
Equivalent to Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Canada
Graduated June 2021

Startup School
Y Combinator
Participated in Startup School while building ZIGG.
Completed September 2021

Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship Management
George Brown Polytechnic
Dean's Honours List for Academic Excellence
Diploma
Graduated April 2024

Product Management Bootcamp

Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia


Certificate

Graduated June 2024