Our People
Practitioners first. Always.
Every engagement is led by engineers who've solved these problems before—people who still write code and can go deep when it matters.
Leadership
Founded by practitioners, not theorists.
The engineer who's seen it all and chose boring on purpose.
Background
- Currently CIO at SS&C Technologies, leading technology strategy for a $5B+ financial services firm.
- Built and led security at Bridgewater. Principal architect at Bloomberg's Office of the CTO, driving security, infrastructure, and technology of all types. Using influence to drive impact while being responsible for the overall direction of security.
- Advised 400+ companies on technology, direction, and leadership for Bloomberg, Bridgewater, and many others. Two decades of transformation leadership—turnarounds, M&A due diligence, and building teams that ship.
- Co-hosts the Bytes of Wisdom podcast, covering technology leadership, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
Philosophy
Thinks in code. Calm, always. Boring Tech. Go to first principles—the source code tells you the truth, PCAPs win all arguments. Most security issues are just bugs, so fix the bugs. Expertise comes from time, mistakes, and learning to bifurcate problem spaces into thirds, not halves. That intuition doesn't happen without experience.
Expertise
Danielle Rossi
Operations Director & Co-Founder
The operator who turns chaos into clockwork.
Background
- The backbone that keeps BDE running and makes everybody better. Facilitator, driver, mover, shaker.
- Three-time Ironman finisher and USA Triathlon certified coach—the same discipline that gets you through 140.6 miles gets projects across the finish line.
- Has the rare ability to make technology people excel at operations. Operations is her lifeblood.
Philosophy
Operations isn't glamorous, but it's everything. Great strategy fails without great execution. She makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Expertise
Advisors
Strategic and technical guidance from industry veterans.
Teaching people and machines to read human behavior.
- Founder of The Nonverbal Group, a behavioral research and education company conducting large-scale studies on human communication.
- Founded Behavioral Robotics, an AI deep tech startup building the largest database of contextually coded human interactions.
- Former adjunct psychology professor and professional high-stakes poker player. Conducted the largest behavioral study on poker players.
Building platforms that scale to billions.
- Global CIO of GIDS at SS&C Technologies, leading enterprise private cloud, platform services, AI/ML infrastructure, and developer productivity.
- 20+ years in software architecture and systems design. Previously held senior roles at Bloomberg and Citigroup.
- Co-hosts 'Bytes of Wisdom' podcast covering technology leadership, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
Why experience matters
Expertise comes from time, exploration, mistakes, and pattern recognition. It's the ability to make conclusions without consciously knowing why—then testing those hypotheses faster.
The difference shows in speed. Experienced engineers bifurcate problem spaces into thirds, not halves. That intuition dramatically reduces time to resolution. It doesn't happen without decades of real-world problems.
Work with experts who've been there
Let's talk about your hardest technical challenges. You'll be talking to the people who'll actually do the work.