ABOUT
ABOUT
ABOUT
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
INTRO :
I'm the engineering leader you bring in when the product works but the platform and the team behind it need to grow up. I've done it three times: as CTO taking a fintech platform from MVP to 99.99% uptime, as NETGEAR's cloud architecture lead fixing the subscription platform tens of millions of devices depend on, and as the builder of a 17-year engineering firm that regulated clients trusted with their entire technology stack.
I stay close to the code and closer to the people. I still write production code, and I'd rather promote a great engineer into leadership than hire around them.
CAREER JOURNEY :
I taught myself to program at 14. Later I found a performance bug in Internet Explorer, built a product around the fix, and shipped TweakIE, shareware downloaded by millions.
That turned into BlooGoo, the engineering firm I ran for 17 years. We grew to 24 people plus 12–15 contractors, led by a director and five Engineering Managers I promoted from within, and served as the full engineering and IT organization for clients like the Colorado Supreme Court (14 years) and NFPA. More than 85% of clients stayed 7+ years, and in 17 years of PCI-DSS and HIPAA work we never had a data breach.
At NETGEAR I reported to the CTO as Principal Engineer and Cloud Architecture Lead. The subscription platform behind the website, mobile app, routers, and security products ran on four conflicting systems of record. I unified them into one source of truth and migrated it live with no risky cutover, raising service-delivery accuracy from ~90% to over 99% and cutting infrastructure cost 22%. I also set the cloud and backend standards used across a 140+ engineer organization.
At Vivimetrix I designed the platform as Architect, including a self-tuning pattern recognition engine that analyzes ~10,000 stocks every trading minute and learns from each day's outcomes. As full-time CTO I took it from MVP to enterprise grade: 5 to 15 engineers under four managers, 99.99% uptime, customer satisfaction from 87% to 96%, and 78% average annual revenue growth since 2022.
HOW I WORK :
Solve the real problem. At NETGEAR the plan was a broad identity overhaul. I made the case to the CTO and VPs for a one-to-one replacement instead, which avoided roughly tripling the projected cost.
Make reliability boring. Runbooks and postmortems, not heroics, cut Sev 0–1 incidents at Vivimetrix from 8 to 3 a year and recovery time from 94 to 38 minutes.
Use AI for leverage, keep humans accountable. AI-assisted development is our default workflow, and every change still gets human review. Lead time fell from 14 days to 8 days.
Keep promises to customers. We hit 93% of roadmap commitments against an 80% target, because engineering, Product, and sales plan the tradeoffs together.
I’m looking for a role leading a multi-team engineering organization, as Director, Senior Director, Head of Engineering, VP, or CTO, where engineering is accountable for business outcomes. If that sounds like your company, let’s talk: brian.rossignol@gmail.com
ABOUT
ABOUT
ABOUT
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
INTRO :
I'm the engineering leader you bring in when the product works but the platform and the team behind it need to grow up. I've done it three times: as CTO taking a fintech platform from MVP to 99.99% uptime, as NETGEAR's cloud architecture lead fixing the subscription platform tens of millions of devices depend on, and as the builder of a 17-year engineering firm that regulated clients trusted with their entire technology stack.
I stay close to the code and closer to the people. I still write production code, and I'd rather promote a great engineer into leadership than hire around them.
CAREER JOURNEY :
I taught myself to program at 14. Later I found a performance bug in Internet Explorer, built a product around the fix, and shipped TweakIE, shareware downloaded by millions.
That turned into BlooGoo, the engineering firm I ran for 17 years. We grew to 24 people plus 12–15 contractors, led by a director and five Engineering Managers I promoted from within, and served as the full engineering and IT organization for clients like the Colorado Supreme Court (14 years) and NFPA. More than 85% of clients stayed 7+ years, and in 17 years of PCI-DSS and HIPAA work we never had a data breach.
At NETGEAR I reported to the CTO as Principal Engineer and Cloud Architecture Lead. The subscription platform behind the website, mobile app, routers, and security products ran on four conflicting systems of record. I unified them into one source of truth and migrated it live with no risky cutover, raising service-delivery accuracy from ~90% to over 99% and cutting infrastructure cost 22%. I also set the cloud and backend standards used across a 140+ engineer organization.
At Vivimetrix I designed the platform as Architect, including a self-tuning pattern recognition engine that analyzes ~10,000 stocks every trading minute and learns from each day's outcomes. As full-time CTO I took it from MVP to enterprise grade: 5 to 15 engineers under four managers, 99.99% uptime, customer satisfaction from 87% to 96%, and 78% average annual revenue growth since 2022.
HOW I WORK :
Solve the real problem. At NETGEAR the plan was a broad identity overhaul. I made the case to the CTO and VPs for a one-to-one replacement instead, which avoided roughly tripling the projected cost.
Make reliability boring. Runbooks and postmortems, not heroics, cut Sev 0–1 incidents at Vivimetrix from 8 to 3 a year and recovery time from 94 to 38 minutes.
Use AI for leverage, keep humans accountable. AI-assisted development is our default workflow, and every change still gets human review. Lead time fell from 14 days to 8 days.
Keep promises to customers. We hit 93% of roadmap commitments against an 80% target, because engineering, Product, and sales plan the tradeoffs together.
I’m looking for a role leading a multi-team engineering organization, as Director, Senior Director, Head of Engineering, VP, or CTO, where engineering is accountable for business outcomes. If that sounds like your company, let’s talk: brian.rossignol@gmail.com
ABOUT
ABOUT
ABOUT
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
BRIAN ROSSIGNOL
INTRO :
I'm the engineering leader you bring in when the product works but the platform and the team behind it need to grow up. I've done it three times: as CTO taking a fintech platform from MVP to 99.99% uptime, as NETGEAR's cloud architecture lead fixing the subscription platform tens of millions of devices depend on, and as the builder of a 17-year engineering firm that regulated clients trusted with their entire technology stack.
I stay close to the code and closer to the people. I still write production code, and I'd rather promote a great engineer into leadership than hire around them.
CAREER JOURNEY :
I taught myself to program at 14. Later I found a performance bug in Internet Explorer, built a product around the fix, and shipped TweakIE, shareware downloaded by millions.
That turned into BlooGoo, the engineering firm I ran for 17 years. We grew to 24 people plus 12–15 contractors, led by a director and five Engineering Managers I promoted from within, and served as the full engineering and IT organization for clients like the Colorado Supreme Court (14 years) and NFPA. More than 85% of clients stayed 7+ years, and in 17 years of PCI-DSS and HIPAA work we never had a data breach.
At NETGEAR I reported to the CTO as Principal Engineer and Cloud Architecture Lead. The subscription platform behind the website, mobile app, routers, and security products ran on four conflicting systems of record. I unified them into one source of truth and migrated it live with no risky cutover, raising service-delivery accuracy from ~90% to over 99% and cutting infrastructure cost 22%. I also set the cloud and backend standards used across a 140+ engineer organization.
At Vivimetrix I designed the platform as Architect, including a self-tuning pattern recognition engine that analyzes ~10,000 stocks every trading minute and learns from each day's outcomes. As full-time CTO I took it from MVP to enterprise grade: 5 to 15 engineers under four managers, 99.99% uptime, customer satisfaction from 87% to 96%, and 78% average annual revenue growth since 2022.
HOW I WORK :
Solve the real problem. At NETGEAR the plan was a broad identity overhaul. I made the case to the CTO and VPs for a one-to-one replacement instead, which avoided roughly tripling the projected cost.
Make reliability boring. Runbooks and postmortems, not heroics, cut Sev 0–1 incidents at Vivimetrix from 8 to 3 a year and recovery time from 94 to 38 minutes.
Use AI for leverage, keep humans accountable. AI-assisted development is our default workflow, and every change still gets human review. Lead time fell from 14 days to 8 days.
Keep promises to customers. We hit 93% of roadmap commitments against an 80% target, because engineering, Product, and sales plan the tradeoffs together.
I’m looking for a role leading a multi-team engineering organization, as Director, Senior Director, Head of Engineering, VP, or CTO, where engineering is accountable for business outcomes. If that sounds like your company, let’s talk: brian.rossignol@gmail.com