Summary
Josh Gertzen is a pragmatic technologist and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience building enterprise and consumer software, leading teams, and founding multiple startups. As co-owner of Sweet Action and founder of MindBlimp, he blends hands-on architecture and development (from compilers to AWS-scaled services) with business leadership, product strategy, and go-to-market execution. He’s led large Java/Spring and JavaScript initiatives, modernized cloud deployments and DevOps, and architected computer-vision and speech/OCR pipelines for video processing. Josh also co-founded hospitality and retail ventures, showing a knack for translating technical rigor into real-world customer experiences. Known for shipping complete stacks—from language parsers to mobile clients—he’s equally comfortable advising C-level leaders and mentoring agile teams. Based in Denver, he brings a rare mix of deep systems-level skills and practical business sensibility that helps organizations solve hard problems on time and on budget.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer