fractional cto / payments infra

Senior engineering
without the
senior headcount

I'm Jordan Brown. For 15 years I've built payments infrastructure, blockchain systems, and the kind of backend plumbing that either works at 3am or costs you money. Fractional engagements only. Shipping over meetings.

based Sandy, UT
availability 2 slots open
engagement 3–6 month min
ops async-first
./start-engagement cat ./work
jibz@bgdev — zsh
try: help whoami stack rates hire clear
selected work

Real engagements. Real infrastructure. No stock photos of people pointing at laptops.

2025 — active ● shipping
Clinical trial operations platform
Cenexel — ClinOps & DevOps
Fractional lead on CTS and a companion mobile app. Hardened a merchant onboarding CLI (API-only, bastion host rules in prod), directed offshore contributors, cleaned up inherited work from prior vendors.
Azure
.NET
RBAC
CI/CD
2025 — active ● shipping
Payments & data engineering
Routesense — Fintech
Production Autoflix onboarding plus a dispute/chargeback data processor. Estuary CDC into S3 Parquet, DuckDB for analytical queries. Expanded into C-suite strategic calls after first shipped wins.
Estuary
DuckDB
Parquet
S3
2024 — shipped ✓ delivered
Stablecoin redemption flow
Custodia Bank — Director of Engineering
Token redemption without requiring user accounts. Sardine integration for KYT. Regulatory-adjacent fintech where the tolerance for "move fast and break things" is exactly zero.
Go
Sardine
Compliance
ongoing ✓ $1B+ processed
Payments infrastructure — legacy
Mercury Payment Systems & others
Fifteen years in payments at the infrastructure layer. Over a billion in transactions processed across engagements. Settlement, reconciliation, the boring stuff that decides whether a fintech actually works.
C#/.NET
SQL Server
Settlement
2024 — scaled 10x ✓ VP Engineering
Blockchain platform scale-up
Nerd United — VP of Engineering
Led a team of 7 engineers. Scaled a blockchain platform 10x through a combination of architectural simplification and removing the work that wasn't actually shipping anything.
Solidity
Node
Architecture
side project ● building
FractionalOS
bgdev labs — MCP-native CRM
A CRM designed for fractional consultants, built on MCP so the tools meet me in my terminal instead of the other way around. Personal tool first. Productizing second.
TypeScript
SQLite
Drizzle
MCP SDK
$1B+
transactions processed
15y
shipping production software
10x
platform scale led
0
standups this week
how this works

Five steps. None of them are “circle back.”

  1. Discovery call
    30 minutes. You describe what's broken or stuck. I tell you whether I'm actually the right person, or recommend someone who is.
  2. Written proposal
    A short doc: scope, deliverables, rate, engagement length. No deck. No discovery phase you have to pay for. If we're aligned, we sign.
  3. Embed & ship
    I join your Slack, your repos, your on-call where it makes sense. You get a senior engineer wired in, not an agency middleman.
  4. Async by default
    Written-first. I'll jump on a call when it's the right tool. Most weeks that's one or two. The rest is code, PRs, and Loom.
  5. Exit cleanly
    Engagements are time-boxed. By the end you have docs, a cleaner system, and the ability to run it without me. That's the whole point.
stack / tooling

Tools I reach for, ordered by how often.

Languages
Go
C# / .NET
TypeScript / Node
Python
SQL (T-SQL, Postgres)
Infrastructure
Azure (RBAC, AKS)
AWS (S3, Lambda)
Railway
Docker / Compose
GitHub Actions
Data & AI
DuckDB / Parquet
Estuary (CDC)
SQL Server
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Claude + Claude Code
./start-engagement

Let's talk about what's broken.

Quick email is best. Tell me what you're working on, what's stuck, and what a good outcome looks like. I read everything, I reply to most, and I'll tell you honestly if I'm not the right fit.

jordan@bgdev.ai → +1 (970) 903-5803 → LinkedIn / jordanmatthewbrown → try the terminal up top →
____ _____ _____ ______ __ | __ )| ___| ____| _ \ \ / / | _ \| |_ | _| | | | \ V / | |_) | _| | |___| |_| || | |____/|_| |_____|____/ |_| [ fractional cto ] [ payments infra ] [ 15 years of it ] > async-first > ship-first > signal-first $ uptime 15y, load avg: 3 clients $ who jibz tty/ttys000 $ date Thu Apr 16 2026 MDT $ _