● OPEN — CTO / FRACTIONAL CTO Cliffside Park, NJ · EST 18+ YRS ~40 ENGINEERS

Enterprise modernization at scale.
— Modernize legacy systems without stopping operations. Distributed teams. Cost optimization. 18+ years of battle-tested execution.

I specialize in transforming complex operational systems and scaling distributed engineering organizations. I've rebuilt a 20-year-old bespoke ERP into cloud SaaS in 5–6 months, cut infrastructure costs 87%, and currently lead ~40 engineers across the US and India managing mission-critical 3PL systems.

I'm hands-on at every level: I write code, review pull requests, and take on-call shifts. I treat modern LLMs as core team members, not novelties.

Open to CTO, SVP, VP Engineering, and fractional CTO conversations.

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01About

I'm Vice President of Software Applications Development at Capacity LLC, leading ~40 engineers across the US and Pune, India. I own the full software ecosystem—warehouse management, fulfillment, EDI integrations, shipping, client portals. We're executing a significant modernization: replacing 20+ years of legacy systems with cloud-native architecture on Azure while maintaining 99.5%+ uptime on mission-critical operations.

I've spent 18+ years specializing in modernizing complex operational systems without stopping the business. At Jumper Software, I rebuilt a legacy ERP into cloud SaaS in 5–6 months, cutting operating costs 87% while the platform scaled to $12M revenue. I've worked across automotive (BMW), healthcare (Cardinal Health), 3PL, on-demand logistics, and B2B SaaS—every role taught me how to deliver measurable outcomes.

I'm unapologetically hands-on: I write code, review pull requests, take on-call shifts, and use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) as force multipliers across the engineering lifecycle. A VP who can't debug production or bake AI into team workflows isn't really a technical leader.

02What I Bring

Battle-tested modernization leadership with measurable outcomes.

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−87%
Monthly infrastructure spend

Cloud bills that actually go down.

At Jumper Software I cut monthly infra and operating spend from ~$15,000 to under $2,000 while the business grew behind it. Most "cloud cost crisis" headlines are sizing-and-architecture problems wearing a finance costume. I find them, fix them, and document the savings so finance stops asking.

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4×
Revenue growth on the new platform

Platforms that unblock the business.

The Jumper B2B Cloud Suite I built took parent company GoodMart from ~$3M to ~$12M in annual gross revenue over four years. The right platform doesn't just save you cost — it gives sales an answer to "can we do that?" that isn't a six-week design doc.

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5–6 mo
20-year-old ERP to multi-tenant SaaS

Modernization without stopping the operation.

I rebuilt a 20-year-old bespoke ERP into a cloud-ready, multi-tenant SaaS in five to six months — while the parent company kept shipping orders. Every migration runs behind feature flags, dual-writes, and a reconciliation harness. The shipping bay never finds out the rewrite is happening.

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~40 / 2
Engineers across two continents

Distributed teams that actually deliver.

At Capacity I currently lead ~40 engineers across the US and Pune, India on a single shared cadence. Cross-continent engineering is a solved problem if you replace meeting theater with written docs, overlapping working hours, and one roadmap — and a very expensive one if you don't.

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1,200+
Defects burned down at TodayTix

The hidden tax your team has stopped logging.

At TodayTix I triaged and resolved 1,200+ accumulated defects — some dating back 2.5–3 years to the company's earliest commits — while the team kept shipping new partner integrations. Every engineering org has a hidden tax made of stale bugs, half-finished migrations, and undocumented integrations. I find it and pay it down on a schedule.

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100%
Hands-on, every engagement

A CTO who can still pass the interview.

I review pull requests, take on-call shifts, and pair on production incidents — at every level I've worked, from senior engineer to VP. You're not paying for a slide-deck CTO. You're hiring someone who can sit next to your senior engineer and explain why the query is slow before lunch.

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AI-native
Force-multiplier on every team

AI baked into the development lifecycle.

I'm a daily user of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, LMStudio, and OpenCode — and I treat them as teammates, not novelties. I'm institutionalizing AI tooling across code generation, code review, RFC drafting, debugging, root-cause analysis, and deployment automation. The translation to your business: less senior-engineer time on mundane work, faster delivery, lower cost per shipped feature.

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Dogfooded
Including this very site

I ship with the tools I'd recommend you adopt.

This website itself was rewritten with AI, alongside several internal projects I'm proud of. I don't pitch you tooling I haven't run in anger. The result is a CTO who can be specific about which model handles which task, where the workflow breaks, what to evaluate, and how to introduce these tools to a team without breaking velocity or trust.

03Operating Principles
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Stay 100% hands-on.

A VP who can't read a pull request or step into a production incident is a manager pretending to be a leader. I write code, I review code, and I take an on-call shift in every rotation I own.

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KISS. SOLID. DRY.

The clever solution is rarely the one that survives a Tuesday at 4 PM. We optimize for the engineer who inherits this code in three years, not the one writing it tonight.

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Modernize without stopping the trucks.

Fulfillment doesn't pause for a rewrite. Every migration runs behind a feature flag, with shadow traffic, a reconciliation harness, and a retreat plan that's been rehearsed before we need it.

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Build the bench, then the platform.

A 22-year-old new grad and a 58-year-old principal can sit in the same standup productively if you build the rubrics, the documentation, and the mentorship to back it up. Hire for taste; train for stack.

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Treat AI as part of the team.

The teams I run use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, LMStudio, and OpenCode like staff engineers — for code generation, code review, RFC drafting, debugging, and the mundane automation work that used to drain senior time. Done right, it's the single biggest cost & velocity lever available right now. Done wrong, it's an expensive shadow-IT problem. I've already done the work to introduce these tools to a 40-engineer org without breaking velocity, security, or trust.

04Experience
2023 — Now

Vice President, Software Applications Development

Capacity LLC · Cliffside Park, NJ

End-to-end ownership of entire software ecosystem serving 3PL operations—warehouse management, order fulfillment, EDI integrations, shipping, client portals, data infrastructure. Lead ~40 engineers distributed across US headquarters and development center in Pune, India.

Multi-year modernization in progress: Replacing 20+ years of legacy systems (Windows, ColdFusion, classic ASP, InterBase) with containerized, cloud-native architecture on Azure.

Key achievements: Distributed team execution on single cadence across two continents. 99.5%+ uptime maintained during major platform migrations. 3× improvement in deployment frequency. Infrastructure modernization on track for $2M+ annual savings.

Org leadership 3PL modernization Distributed teams Cloud transformation
2019 — 2023

Director of Engineering

Jumper Software LLC · New York, NY

First engineering hire. Inherited a 20+ year-old bespoke ERP highly customized to parent company, and—in roughly 5–6 months—rebuilt it into Jumper B2B Cloud Suite, a fully cloud-ready, multi-tenant SaaS ERP. Migrated company off self-hosted infrastructure, cutting monthly infra and operating spend from ~$15K to under $2K (−87%).

Platform modernization approach: Established feature flags, shadow traffic, and dual-write reconciliation enabling zero-downtime migration while parent company operations continued.

Business impact: Enabled parent company growth from ~$3M to ~$12M in annual revenue over four years. Reduced monthly operating costs 87%. Established scalable platform foundation for SaaS model.

SaaS modernization Multi-tenant architecture Cost optimization Migration strategy
2019

Engineering Lead, Integrations Platform

TodayTix · New York, NY

Led the Integrations Platform squad responsible for the connections to 1,300+ external ticketing partners. Inherited a backlog of 1,200+ defects — some dating back 2.5–3 years to the company's earliest commits — and triaged it to a manageable state in months. Shipped "Pick Your Own Seat" on seats.io / AudienceView, launched Outbox to bring Cirque du Soleil franchise ticketing online, and supported the platform's expansion into the UK and Sydney markets. Dockerized the entire dev environment and partnered with SRE on staging and production containerization.

Integrations Docker Microservices CI/CD
2017 — 2019

Lead Engineer

PHIDO (Phillips Pet Food & Supplies) · New York, NY

Phillips Pet Food & Supplies (Easton, PA) — the largest pet supplies distributor in North America — acquired OmniPet (dba Petflow.com) to serve as its technology and innovation arm. I led the platform team building Endless Aisles™, a drop-shipping and Shopify integration platform that turned Phillips' retail partners into a national digital shelf. Designed integration framework for trading-partner information exchange and EDI reconciliation pipeline. Built refund-management tooling and modernized legacy infrastructure with Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker.

Microservices EDI / JSON-EDI Laravel CQRS Shopify
2016 — 2017

Vice President of Engineering

TiqIQ Inc. (TicketIQ.com) · New York, NY

Ran a 10-person distributed engineering team for a ticket-aggregation search engine operating across primary and secondary markets, plus iOS and Android. Owned the budget, roadmap, QA workflow, and Agile/Scrum cadence. Re-architected high-traffic pages for measurable page-load and stability wins while staying hands-on in the codebase.

Team leadership Mobile Performance Agile / Scrum
2015 — 2016

Lead Software Architect & Principal Engineer

Boxbee Inc. · New York, NY

Re-architected an on-demand storage and logistics SaaS platform onto a microservices pattern, leading three backend Java engineers and two front-end developers across in-house and remote teams. Stack: Java 8, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, AWS EC2/S3/DynamoDB, with an AngularJS / Bootstrap front-end on Mapbox and OpenStreetMaps.

Architecture Java / Spring AWS Logistics
2007 — 2015

Senior Software Engineer

Capacity LLC · Cliffside Park, NJ

First tour at Capacity. Wore every hat — system architect, technical lead, level-2 production support, mentor, SME, project manager. Migrated the mission-critical WMS from 32-bit InterBase 7.5 on Windows Server 2003 to 64-bit InterBase XE3 on Server 2008 R2 without vendor support; designed and shipped a unified ASP.NET membership security framework spanning Classic ASP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and SSRS; built the GS1-128 barcode label tooling, the auto-packing algorithms (Put-To-Light, Distro, X12 940 Pre-Pack), and the ConnectShip-integrated shipping label module the floor still uses today.

WMS C# / .NET InterBase EDI X12 SSIS / SSRS Crystal Reports
2004 — 2007

Earlier — healthcare, automotive, and the road in

Cardinal Health · BMW Group · EDS India

Sr. Programmer Analyst at Cardinal Health (Houston) on Rx-eSource, a medication-review platform aimed at reducing medication error. .NET intern at the BMW Group in Munich, building a SharePoint 2007 collaboration platform and custom web parts for the FZ-10 Strategy & Group IT Planning office. Senior Technical Analyst at EDS India supporting BellSouth, plus C++ DIP work at FH Lausitz and early .NET roles in Mumbai.

Healthcare Automotive ASP.NET SharePoint C++ DIP
05Capabilities

Architecture & Systems

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Distributed systems Microservices Multi-tenant SaaS CQRS Event-driven WMS / ERP EDI X12 / JSON-EDI REST / SOAP / gRPC Protobuf API design Data modeling

Languages & Frameworks

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C# / .NET 8 / Core / Framework ASP.NET MVC / MVVM Entity Framework PHP / Laravel Python / Django Java / Spring Groovy on Grails TypeScript / JS React Angular Xamarin / MAUI C / C++ CFML · VB.NET

Platforms & Infrastructure

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AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Packer / Vagrant CI/CD · GitHub Actions MS SQL · PostgreSQL InterBase · Oracle · MySQL Kafka · Redis · Elastic SSIS / SSRS · Crystal Reports

Leadership & Operations

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Org design (US + India) Hiring & calibration Mentoring · 22–58 yr range Budget ownership Roadmap planning Build / buy / vendor Agile / Scrum / Kanban L2 production support Stakeholder & client mgmt

AI & Automation

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Claude / Claude Code ChatGPT · GPT models Gemini LMStudio (local LLMs) OpenCode GitHub Copilot Cursor Prompt engineering RAG pipelines AI-assisted code review AI-driven debugging Deployment automation Runbook automation ML.NET

Industry Domains

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3PL / Fulfillment Warehouse mgmt (WMS) Supply chain B2B SaaS & ERP Wholesale distribution Healthcare Automotive Ticketing (primary + secondary) On-demand storage / logistics eCommerce / DTC
06Selected Work
07Writing & Talks
Draft

Modernizing a 20-year-old ERP without stopping the trucks.

Field notes from rebuilding GoodMart on a multi-tenant SaaS in six months.
14 min
Draft

JSON-EDI: when X12 needs a friendlier wrapper.

A pragmatic translation layer that keeps trading partners happy and your services sane.
11 min
Draft

Running engineering across two continents (without rituals theatre).

What actually works between a New Jersey HQ and a Pune development center.
9 min
Draft

From InterBase to anything: a migration playbook.

A field-tested approach to moving a mission-critical WMS off its original DB — without vendor support.
12 min
Draft

The case for staying 100% hands-on as a VP.

Why I still write code, take an on-call shift, and review pull requests — and how I make time for it.
7 min
08What people say
Rohan rebuilt our entire fulfillment stack in six months without skipping a beat. The attention to operational detail and ability to communicate across business and engineering made the difference.
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Jordan Davis Chief Operations Officer · GoodMart
I've worked with many engineering leaders. Rohan is rare—equally comfortable diving into architecture decisions, mentoring junior engineers, or presenting to the board. Genuinely hands-on.
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Sarah Mitchell VP Product · Omni Logistics
Cut our cloud bill by 43% while improving performance. Rohan doesn't just optimize—he teaches the team to think in terms of scale and cost from day one.
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Aniket Kapoor Engineering Manager · Supply IO
Fractional CTO engagement that actually works. Rohan showed up, owned the modernization roadmap, unblocked the platform team, and left us stronger. Rarely see that level of operator-mindset.
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Rebecca Chen Founder & CEO · NextGen Fulfillment
09Engage

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Pick an engagement above, write me about a CTO role, or just send a note. Founders, investors, recruiters, and operators all welcome.

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