CTO at goLance • Making software simple • Startup Mentor

80% of companies quit on AI before it helps.

Why? 
• One doubtful engineer
• Scary tool costs
• Or no clear plan

I make those problems disappear.

Who I Am
• 20+ years in code and leadership – from hands-on developer to CTO.
• Scaled SaaS platforms used by millions of customers.
• Trained global teams of 10 – 200 engineers to work faster and smarter.
• Guided “boring-industry” firms like healthcare and banks through tough tech shifts.

What I Bring
• Plain-language coaching – Your leaders and engineers get the “why” and the “how” without buzzwords.
• Tool fit & cost control – Pick the right AI tools, keep data safe, and stop surprise credit charges.
• Team habits that stick – I show devs how to fold AI into daily tasks—code reviews, tests, docs—until it feels natural.
• Measurable gains – Expect quicker releases, fewer bugs, and happier engineers in weeks, not years.
• Outcome pricing – You pay for real results, not for my hours on a clock.

The Bottom Line
If you lead a steady, no-flash company and keep hearing, “AI sounds cool, but…,” let’s talk. I turn that “but” into better software, lower costs, and a team that loves its work.

Brian Childress

United Airlines

Full stack application development with Angular, C#, and MS-SQL for the Crew Communications System (CCS)
		
•	Upgraded application dependencies using NPM audit to prevent critical software exploits and utilize new features
•	Mentored junior developers via paired programming sessions to promote knowledge transfer within the development team
•	Migrated application variables to MS-SQL databases and updated Azure DevOps projects to allow dynamic app configuration
•	Enforced high standards for codebases with code reviews to keep code maintainable

Senior Developer

CoreLogic

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for front end development, DevOps automation, data science methodologies, and cloud best practices
		
•	Designed infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates via Terraform to reliably deploy microservices in multiple environments
•	Built Docker container images with preconfigured dependencies to improve CloudBees Jenkins build times
•	Reduced server downtime with Java Spring Cloud Config and RabbitMQ to increase application availability
•	Directed development efforts with TDD and XP to ensure code quality and promote knowledge sharing
•	Wrote scripts with Groovy and Kotlin to build and test applications with Jenkins
•	Created and maintained config files with Tanzu Cloud Foundry to support multi-region and multi environment deployments

Technical Lead

Charter Communications

Assured high quality user experience (UX) for mobile, desktop, and Xbox streaming applications supported by data driven metrics
		
•	Lead group testing before application releases to prevent critical issues from reaching production environments
•	Performed root cause analysis with Splunk and Kibana to determine scope of customer reported issues to initiate resolution
•	Inspected network packets with WireShark and Charles Proxy to ensure service-to-service traffic was within expectations
•	Streamlined Runscope tests by removing repeated code to improve maintainability

Product Operations Engineer

ThinkTank by GroupSystems

Provided insight into accessibility requirements to achieve 100% Section 508 compliance
		
•	Participated in regular code audits initiated by third parties to address security loopholes and performance issues
•	Collaborated with sales representatives and engineers to develop new features based upon customer requests
•	Conducted daily Scrum meetings with offshore development team to ensure feature parity across multiple platforms

Application Developer

Explosive Remedies LLC

Front end development to build interactive applications
		
•	Gathered technical requirements by collaborating with stakeholders to develop interactive presentations

Senior Flash Developer

Document Technologies Inc

Handled chain of custody of evidence for the Department of Justice, Holland and Hart and other legal domain entities
		
•	Processed evidence with custom scripts to produce deliverables in custom formats
•	Performed OCR on digital documents with IPro eScan-IT to build searchable databases for client discovery
•	Batch processed large volumes of evidence through eCapture cluster to process and back up digital media at scale

Technology Specialist

Quiznos

Collaborated with the Director of Communications to create new training content
		
•	Animated and designed video content with Adobe Flash to train franchisees on updated standards
•	Corrected issues with web training by performing debugging sessions to ensure content is accurate and accessible
•	Provided access to NoSQL databases to remove unused data for optimizing cost of hosting

Communications Intern

Extremely experienced cross functional software engineer, dedicated to the delivery of excellence.

Focused on security solutions from code to infrastructure so you don't have to be.

Methodical, analytical, passionate, meticulous, thoughtful and opinionated, with a little bit of humor thrown in for good measure.

Do not fear the unknown, make it the known.

Jaye Yaple

Another migraine, another opportunity to look like my profile pic in real life

I'll be back when the screaming in my mind tuckers itself out

TypeScript / JavaScript / Java / Jenkins / AWS

Woke up today to a thread where people inadvertantly discovered how to pollute AI data with nonsense they made up.

What a great start to the week. Really made me feel good about things.

Fun fact: I absolutely detest defeatism.

I do not respect people who don't understand that success is incremental, not a zero sum game.

Yoda was wrong. You always try! Doing is the effect of trying. Failure is trying, doing, and not succeeding.

You will never yield better outcomes if you don't put in the time.

You don't win a race by taking one single step. It's won by making many steps, both at the actual event and in the preparation for it.

Don't look at the mountain and say it cannot be conquered.

Take the actions to prepare it for being conquered by you.

It starts with small decisions, small actions, and not giving up when things don't go well every time.

You will fuck things up. Accept that. We all do it eventually.

But you won't succeed if you don't bother at all.

Its really difficult to not conclude that the "professional networking site" is in favor of the subject matter described here

Seeing as they approve of it

Content Marketer & Brand Storyteller | Creative Strategist & Writer of Things That Stick

Today, a man commented, “I’d human traffic you” on a post I wrote about AI-generated violence against women.

On LinkedIn. Under his real name. On a “professional” platform.

I reported it. LinkedIn reviewed it and decided the comment does not violate their Professional Community Policies.

A direct statement invoking human trafficking, aimed at a woman who dared to speak about violence, is considered acceptable discourse. Not a misunderstanding. Not a gray area. Acceptable.

This is how violence survives.

We’re told to block. To mute. To “not feed the trolls.” To absorb it quietly and keep posting like nothing happened. As if the problem is our sensitivity, not the threat itself.

But when a platform decides that a trafficking threat doesn’t cross the line, the line isn’t blurry...it’s been dragged so far back it’s functionally gone.

I blocked the commenter. What I can’t block is a system that keeps asking women to pay this price for having a voice.

This is why I refuse to call what we’re living through “innovation” when it so often reproduces the same old hierarchies: men protected, women exposed, harm minimized, paperwork complete.

This is how institutions record their values: not in policy, but in whom they let threaten women without consequence.

According to several upset people, I have a crude sense of humor

Its an absolute lie

I studied for years to learn how to distill crude humor into several different grades of refined humor via the love of applied chemistry and physics combined with the power of industry

You're just putting the wrong grade in your tank is all

My mum taught me something valuable when I was very little.

She told us that we were a very wasteful species. We cannot be bothered to repair things that are broken, and we just throw things away recklessly.

This stuck with me for a long time. Its been one of the things that motivates me to fix things, the spark of my drive as it were.

What does this have to do with jewelry?

Well, I found a random earring in my room one day, way back in the corner of my closet. Its not one of mine, I'm extremely particular about what I wear.

I asked around my home. No one could explain it, so I kept it in a box and forgot about it.

Today I dropped that box and remembered it when it fell out.

So I fixed this lost earring by reusing it to be the charm of my latest work.

Resourcefulness is a necessary aspect of creative thought.

Without the ability to abstract, we ignore possibilities within our grasp. Concrete structures limit our outcomes to only what we have experienced or been told.

There is no reason to think outside of a box if the box does not exist to imprison your thoughts.

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