Summary
Glen Barnhardt is a veteran software leader and founder with over four decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior engineering leadership roles, now building AI-driven software factories as CEO & AI Agentic Engineer at Barnhardt Enterprises. He conceived his first self-learning AI in 1983 and has evolved that curiosity into Quetrex, an orchestrated system of specialized AI agents and seven quality gates that produced 313,000+ lines of production code—186,000 of which power DealerQ, a live SaaS serving marketing agencies. Glen’s background spans large-scale education systems, cloud operations, and enterprise architecture, giving him deep insight into how production systems fail and what tooling and process safeguards they need. Rather than writing code, he now architects systems, designs enforceable quality gates, and directs agentic AI to deliver production-ready software. Based in Florida and an early AI adopter, he combines long-term institutional knowledge with practical experience proving that autonomous code generation can work—if engineered at the layer above code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Management Information Systems General, Master's Degree Management Information Systems General at University of Phoenix