Kolton Tebbey


I like good technology, great coffee, and bad puns.

Kolton Tebbey, shoulders-up portrait in a black quarter-zip against a light background.

01 About

I'm an entrepreneur, software developer, and technology manager with more than ten years in product management and enterprise technology. My first company was an online community I started at twelve and ran for nine years, and I've been building things ever since. Most of that work has been leading diverse teams through cross-functional problems, some of it inside a Fortune 500 and some of it building companies from nothing. The part I care about is the culture around the work: collaboration, room to experiment, and getting a little better every quarter.

Outside of work it's new food, travel, coffee, and music.

02 Work

  1. 2025 – Present

    Indago Bio

    Founder

    Indago is an end-to-end regulatory companion for life sciences teams. It drafts CTD-structured documents from a company's own study data, flags the gaps in every section before the FDA does, and traces each sentence back to the exact source passage behind it, so the experts on the program stay the authors of record. The result is a submission-ready draft the team can review and defend rather than rebuild. I founded Indago and run the company, which today spans eight people across a few teams.

  2. 2021 – Present

    Grainger

    Engineering Manager, Performance & CDN Engineering

    Grainger is a Fortune 500 industrial distributor. I lead a team of nine responsible for site performance and content delivery across the US, Mexico, and Canada, which makes me accountable for how quickly and reliably the e-commerce experience runs for customers. We moved work out to edge workers and cut origin compute time by more than 10%, and added circuit breakers between dependent services so a failure in one place stops there. What I spend most of my attention on is the engineers: handing them problems big enough to grow into and backing them while they do it.

  3. 2019 – Present

    Synergy Works Group

    Founder & Managing Partner

    Synergy Works Group is an integrated marketing and technology consultancy I founded and run. We work mostly with biotech and energy companies: market and competitive research, digital strategy, websites and web apps, campaign and brand work, and the analytics to tell whether any of it landed. I set the direction, manage the P&L at 120% year over year growth, and lead a team of six across solution delivery, engineering, and digital marketing.

  4. 2010 – 2019

    Runeaid

    Founder

    Runeaid was an online community and product business built around the popular MMORPG RuneScape. I founded it at twelve and ran it for nine years with a global team of more than ten people. I wrote the product roadmaps behind a quarter-billion hits across our products, raised investment, and managed the finances. A large part of the job was training developers with wildly different skill sets and working out which role each of them was best suited to. It was my first product organization, and most of how I work now started there.

  5. Education

    MS Information Systems and BS Marketing & Information Systems. Indiana University, Kelley School of Business.