Steady

Steady is the autonomous team coordination platform revolutionizing modern work.

The average knowledge worker spends an astonishing 23 hours each week on coordination tasks—meetings, context-switching, and chasing information—rather than the work itself. This “coordination tax” drains productivity, diminishes work quality, and contributes to burnout and attrition.

Steady cuts the coordination tax and reverses the downward spiral of productivity, quality, and engagement. It runs in the background, automatically distilling plans & progress from tools, teams, and people into tailored summaries that give everyone the clarity they need to make fast decisions and outstanding products.

Designed for today’s complex work environments—where information is fragmented across tools, schedules, and human silos—Steady seamlessly integrates into your stack, delivering speed-to-impact instantly. It transforms how organizations coordinate, multiplying capacity and capability without increasing complexity.

At its core, Steady implements Continuous Coordination, an open-source framework for high-performance knowledge work. This proven methodology promotes structured, asynchronous communication loops, empowering teams to make informed decisions and achieve alignment without constant interruptions.

Founder and CEO

Status Hero

Built and operated a SaaS tool that provided asynchronous check-ins, live goals, and status dashboards to tech teams. Bootstrapped and profitable to $1M ARR per employee.

8012 Labs

Built a handful of niche consumer SaaS products and served as an advisor to early-stage tech startups and web product teams.

Founder and Principal

Constant Contact

Led a small, crack team charged with envisioning and prototyping disruptive digital marketing offerings for Constant Contact's small business customer base. Drove innovation by applying lean startup patterns and generally working outside of conventional corporate approaches. Delivered working prototypes for product organization to work with and integrate. Reported directly to SVP, Product.

Director, Product Development

Opened New York City engineering office for the leading provider of software-as-a-service small business marketing products following the acquisition of Bantam Networks. Managed cross-functional and cross-geographical team charged with integrating the Bantam CRM tool suite, new technologies and processes into a complex distributed architecture.

Director, Engineering

Bantam Networks (acquired by Constant Contact)

Co-founder of startup that built award-winning web-based social customer relationship management (CRM) application Bantam Live. Principal software architect for the modular, Ruby on Rails -based subscription service. Hired and managed development team, created development workflow and practices, and established deployment environment structure and operations. Company acquired in February 2011 by Constant Contact, Inc.

Cofounder and CTO

Aperio Networks

Created web applications in both a consulting role and as stand-­alone ventures. Developed and maintained custom content management frameworks on top of both LAMP-stack and Ruby web platforms. Projects included EventSpan.com, WebinarWire.com, KeyPeopleDirectory.com, ConferencingNews.com. Clients included Cadbury Schwepps, Pusser’s Rum, The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board and Alternative Investment Group.

Cofounder and Partner

Independent Consultant

Developed, planned and executed database enabled web presences for small businesses. Contributed to several open source programming projects. Directed programming and operations for popular internet radio station Digitally Imported.

Sapient

Design, development and user-research lead for consulting firm’s Media, Entertainment and Communications business unit. Estimated, sold and managed $2-10MM multi-disciplinary development engagements for Fortune 1000 clients and startup companies. Participated in acquisition and integration of design firm Studio Archetype. Clients included Columbia House, United Airlines, CBS and Verizon.

Director

Studio Archetype

Created new role at award-winning interactive design firm. Responsible for interfacing with technology partners at company and client level. Built and managed company-wide team charged with merging the principles of user-interface design with the latest in interactive technologies. Clients included IBM, Kodak and First Union.

Director, Web Development

Big World Media

Founded interactive media services and web site development firm. Projects included internet roll-out strategy and implementation for corporate clients, database to web connectivity, real-time web content updates and CD-ROM based sales and training presentations. Personally created proprietary Internet content updating system for a premier traffic and traveler information reporting company SmartRoute Systems.

Cofounder and Principal

I've been building digital products and leading software teams for almost three decades. My experience includes engineering and product leadership roles in all sorts of organizations, from bootstrapped businesses and venture-backed startups to publicly traded companies. 

Over the years, I've been lucky enough to work, fail, and succeed with world-class creatives, engineers, marketers, and execs. I deeply understand what it takes to efficiently align people behind inventing, developing, scaling, and cultivating exceptional software products.

Today, I'm harvesting this experience to build and grow Steady, a simple approach to asynchronously coordinating work for software product orgs. Steady implements an open-source set of principles for modern knowledge work called Continuous Coordination, which I helped to create with my colleagues at Steady and other tech leaders.

Henry Poydar

Multiple

As a fractional engineering leader , providing consulting services in SaaS, Analytics, Agile Development (Scrum / Kanban) , engineering processes, product strategy and Growth hacking.

Fractional Engineering leader

Techstars

Mentoring / Coaching startups selected in Techstars accelerator program

Mentor

Boomi

As the pioneer of native-cloud integration platform as a service (iPaaS) technology, Boomi is revolutionizing how organizations can connect their applications and data to work smarter, faster and better.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Consulting startups in SaaS, Analytics, Agile Development (Scrum / Kanban) , engineering processes, product strategy and Growth hacking

Consultant

ThriveHive

•	As member of senior executive team, owned IT, Development, UX, QA, and support.
•	Introduced and successfully implemented SCRUM processes in 3 teams.
•	Grew local engineering team from 2 to 10 in six months. Total team to 16. 
•	Developed partnership with unconventional organizations for recruiting pipeline.
•	Championed for mobile skill-set and innovation time. Released first IOS app.
•	Re-architected platform to integrate various marketing services and mobile apps.
•	Consolidated four data centers into two to improve security and operational efficiency.

Vice President Engineering

Chitika, Inc.

Chitika is an online ad network serving 300,000+ publishers.

- Developed new D2S advertising product currently used at WSJ. Increased CPM revenue to 533% through multiple optimization techniques.

- Developed new publisher management platform and migrated 300,000+ publishers.

- Championed better user experience with "Beautiful Ads" Initiative. Fixed 17 sore points across templates through 150+ A/B tests.

- Introduced agile and best engineering practices in the organization. Implemented architectural changes to develop 11 API services across products.

Adtech, SMB, SaaS

Head of Engineering

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)

Helping the newer generations of Sherlock Holmes in real life, to combat/uncover financial fraud.

Developing software, mainly for Banks and other Financial institutions to prevent and detect Employee Fraud, Check Fraud, ACH and Wire Fraud, Credit card Fraud, Money Laundering
(FIS aquired Memento in April 2012)

Director of Engineering

Developing software which helps Small and Medium size businesses to keep in touch with their customers.

- As engineering owner, responsible for product development, QA, 24X7 operations and support for SaaS Event management product (Software as a Service). Reported to VP/GM.

- Successfully researched and acquired another startup, E2M Systems. Integrated teams and delivered a new event management product in 18 months in a distributed team environment.

- Coordinated large scale software migration effort across multiple products.

- Simultaneously managed multiple product teams (Event, Survey and X product).

Engineering Manager

Intuit

-Responsible for for 24X7 uptime of web services for Credit card processing transactions.
-Managed operational and technical support relationship with Service providers and partners 
-Designed and instituted escalation processes to manage issues originated from multiple resources from automatic monitoring to customer calls. 
-Managed SW development group which builds shared components and platform for Intuit's other business units.

Sr. SW Engineering Manager

Authoria Inc

Reporting to CTO/VP of Engg., evaluated offshore vendor and staffed offshore team.
Instituted processes and plans to support offshore outsourcing effort in India.
Managed budget, overall relationship and contractual responsibility for offshore development.

Director- Software Development

- Technology executive with track record of successfully building global engineering teams.
- Key contributor to 5 Successful exits: 4 Acquisitions/mergers and 1 IPO.
- Quoted as “A pioneer of Indian language websites” by Livemint (a sister publication of Wall Street Journal and Hindustan times). 
- Driven technologist, people manager, culture builder and process improver.
- Remotely managed offshore teams in Israel,Ukraine and India. 
- Experienced in full lifecycle of software development using both structured and AGILE (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies.
- And also a professional standup comedian. For real . I performed on National TV ( PBS, ABC) , Broadway and six countries ! 

Specialties: Global distributed development, Software project/people/process management, 
Software as a Service (SaaS),  Mobile, Web based, Enterprise and Multilingual applications,  very large scale, Adtech, Digital Marketing, Cloud computing, Telecommunication, Small Business Applications (SMB), E-commerce, Drupal, clean Standup comedy

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