Topper Bowers builds agent harnesses at Viktor, drawing on work in AI characters, developer infrastructure and distributed systems. Previously cofounded Amicus and Quorum Control, and built memory, orchestration and real-time interaction systems at Open Souls and Illusion of Life.
Harness Engineer
Builds agent harnesses for an AI employee product.
Applied AI Engineer
Built and documented voice agents, self-hosted video generation, agent tooling and an interactive interface museum.
Founding Cognitive Architect
Built Spark, an AI character with memory, vision and speech; designed a multi-agent harness under real-time latency constraints. Earlier work at Open Souls (2023–2025) covered character runtimes, orchestration and developer infrastructure.
Founding Cognitive Architect
Founder & CEO
Founded a venture-backed distributed-systems company; built the Tupelo blockchain and later Crypto Colosseum.
Director of Engineering
Created and led a Services engineering team building shared tools and platforms; introduced lean delivery, kanban and cross-functional engineering practices.
CTO & Cofounder
Cofounded the civic-technology startup, grew its engineering team to nine people, and split development into two focused teams while working across product, design and sales.
Lead Developer
Joined through the Motionbox acquisition; integrated video encoding, editing, storage, streaming and consumer web tools into Snapfish.
Lead Application Developer
Led development of a Rails video application; helped establish agile releases and built frontend technology including the open-source Mamoo JavaScript framework.
Founder
Designed, built and marketed an embeddable polling product; sold the company in 2008.
Corporate Communications
Built internal tools, marketing systems and Ruby on Rails applications for a media software company.
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