Summary
Doug Beard is a pragmatic CTO with nine years of senior leadership experience who blends hands-on engineering with full operational ownership of revenue-driving businesses. He has a track record of consolidating fragmented systems into modular SaaS platforms, modernizing SDLC and infrastructure, and directly managing operations that drive retention, margin, and over $13M in annual revenue. Comfortable at board-level strategy, he ties technical investments to EBITDA and unit economics rather than feature velocity. Doug is fluent across product, data, integrations and partner economics, and uniquely applies pragmatic AI and instrumentation to move decisions from anecdote to measurable outcomes. He excels at simplifying complexity—rebuilding systems, teams, and workflows so strategy actually lands in execution.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer