27 Years of Watching Things Blow Up
I've spent my career building software at every scale. More importantly, I've seen every way these decisions go wrong.
Where I've Worked
- Fortune 500s: Where process matters and scale kills you. I've seen enterprise teams move so slow they got eaten by competitors.
- Startups: Where speed beats perfection and tech debt is a feature. I've seen companies scale their architecture before finding customers.
- Military: Where security isn't optional and downtime costs lives.
- Hedge funds: Where correctness under pressure is everything.
- SaaS: Where uptime is revenue and outages are existential. I built and sold a SaaS. Still run production systems.
I've rescued teams from every expensive mistake. So you can avoid them.
What I've Seen Fail
$50M rewrites that never shipped.
Teams paralyzed by "senior" hires who made everything worse.
Startups that scaled their architecture before finding customers.
Enterprises that moved so slow they got eaten by competitors.
Solo founders who built fast with AI but had no idea what was about to break.
The Short Version
Founder with one exit. SaaS operator who understands both product and sales.
25+ years delivering software for Fortune 500s, hedge funds, government agencies, and fast-moving startups.
Fractional CTO trusted by companies earning hundreds of thousands to millions in revenue.
I help dev teams ship what customers actually need, not just what they asked for.
I don't have all the answers. But I've probably seen your situation before.