He also programmed business intelligence software at Brio, email software at eGroups and Yahoo, and then games at Synovial. Cwikla led back-end engineering at document analytics company, Biz360. He held the CTO and VP of Engineering roles at both Xoom and Doostang. He launched two social games as CTO of GameLayers, and also co-founded Tello. Before co-founding Giant Pixel, Cwikla was VP of Engineering at Radius Intelligence (formerly known as Fwix). He studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois.