The Problem You found a problem worth solving and validated your solution. Now the technical decisions are getting harder, the demo architecture is starting to show its limitations, and your engineering team needs leadership you don't have the bandwidth to provide. But you are not ready to spend equity or $250k for a CTO.
You need someone who can steer your team around months of trial and error, or worse, hasty patches that will cost you for years.
What I Bring I have spent thirty years writing software for industries where the cost of error is high. Feedmill control systems deployed at 65 feedyards. Dam and river control systems for the Bureau of Reclamation. Operations planning systems for airlines all over the world. Three years as the Director of Engineering at one of the most complex philanthropic giving platforms in the world.
I know what good architecture looks like at scale. I know what technical debt costs when it compounds. And I know how to lead and retain engineering teams through hard problems without burning them out. I also know legacy systems are, by definition, the systems you depend on to run your business. Not a challenge to try to replace with the latest fad technology.
My AgTech roots run deep. I wrote embedded C for cattle feedyard control systems when many were still running on punchcards. I understand your domain, your constraints, and your customers in ways a generalist does not.
What To Expect A typical engagement is 16 hours per week, remote-first. Architecture review and roadmap planning. Engineering team leadership and mentorship. Cloud to client guidance across production services, Technology decisions you can defend to your board, including a reasonable AI strategy that isn't just rainbows and wishful thinking or flat-out denial. Available for occasional on-site visits (Amarillo, TX based).
Who This Is For AgTech, FinTech, or mission-driven SaaS companies at the Series A/B stage, or established businesses carrying technical debt that is starting to hurt growth.
Book a Call Let's spend 30 minutes on your hardest technical problem. No pitch, no deck. Just a straight conversation about where you are and whether I can help.