# Tomas Vykruta

> Tomas Vykruta is the co-founder and president of EvolutionIQ, an insurance claims guidance software company acquired by CCC Intelligent Solutions in January 2025 following an announced $730 million deal. A former Google machine learning engineer and earlier game programmer, he is also a commercial pilot and flight instructor who writes about aviation and technology.

- **Role:** Co-founder and President at EvolutionIQ
- **Organizations:** EvolutionIQ, Google, Waymo, Microsoft, Surreal Software
- **Known for:** Co-founded EvolutionIQ, acquired by CCC following an announced $730 million transaction., Contributed to Google machine learning work including autonomous driving., Co-authored a 2018 ICASSP paper on contextual signals in language models.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Credited as a programmer on Drakan: Order of the Flame.
- **2002** — Programming credits on Drakan: The Ancients’ Gates and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
- **2004** — Credited among senior engine programmers on The Suffering.
- **2005** — Technology lead programmer credit on The Suffering: Ties That Bind.
- **2008** — Began senior engineering work in Microsoft’s Xbox Advanced Technology Group, according to public career listings.
- **2011-2019** — Worked at Google; his September 2019 departure note describes an eight-and-a-half-year tenure.
- **2015** — Publicly identified as a certified flight instructor and Google engineer.
- **2018** — Co-authored Modeling Non-Linguistic Contextual Signals in LSTM Language Models via Domain Adaptation, published at ICASSP.
- **2019** — Co-founded EvolutionIQ, initially known as DeepFraud AI; publicly announced his Google departure in September.
- **2023** — Identified as co-founder and CTO in a Guidewire partnership announcement; spoke at EvolutionIQ’s Puerto Rico offsite in March.
- **2024** — Identified as co-founder and president in CCC’s December acquisition announcement.
- **2025-01-06** — CCC completed its acquisition of EvolutionIQ.
- **2026-08-16** — Published an aviation-risk essay and described being in the final stretch of an Airline Transport Pilot rating.

## Achievements

- Co-founded EvolutionIQ, acquired by CCC following an announced $730 million transaction.
- Contributed to Google machine learning work including autonomous driving.
- Co-authored a 2018 ICASSP paper on contextual signals in language models.
- Held programming and technical leadership credits on commercially released games.
- Qualified as a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published Rethinking Risk: Why Your Mental Model of Aviation Safety Is Probably Wrong on his Data Daily blog; said he was in the final stretch of his ATP rating.
- **2025-01** — CCC completed the EvolutionIQ acquisition on January 6.
- **2024-12** — CCC announced an agreement to acquire EvolutionIQ at a stated $730 million value; identified Vykruta as co-founder and president.

## Links

- Website: https://nyclab.blogspot.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tvykruta/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tvykruta
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pilot_adventures/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24