Neal Tovsen Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Fractional CTO technology, and product leadership. Go-Plaid is designed for startups and other organizations who can't find, can't afford, or simply don't need a full-time CTO. We can also extend your existing technical leadership skills in specific areas.Product management expertise to help figure out what to build, engineering skills to build it, and operations chops to support it in the market.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

In nine months, built a new team of 25 at US Bank distributed between the US and India. Introduced LEAN and Agile methodologies and startup techniques to deliver two new Java web applications to market, with no significant defects. Integrated with existing systems and satisfied complex requirements for PCI, KYC, AML, and other compliance. Uncovered and executed strategy to deliver additional $25M in long-term cost savings over plan. Developed and piloted new SDLC process to go from “maybe monthly” to continuous deployment, with metrics to guarantee compliance, security, and quality.

New York, Ny, Us

Built software to transform a service-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) business model into a Software-as-a-Service platform based on Python, Postgres, JavaScript and AWS. Directed four, six–to-ten-person scrum teams, distributed across the US, Brazil, and Argentina. Utilized distinct management styles with each team, adapting to diverse cultures and experience levels. Promoted and coached a first-time manager to revitalize a failing team, achieving reliable and consistent delivery. Allowed a high-performing team extensive latitude to continue to innovate and improve. Used Lean and Agile to deliver new shipping and returns product to market, on time, with integration to UPS.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Lead Engineering and DevOps for all merchant and lending marketplace initiatives at Sezzle. Grew a Golang, MySQL and AWS microservices platform from 30k to 47k+ merchants. Built a retail lending marketplace, pivoting a single-product platform to handle many financial products, offered from both in-house and external lending partners. Used Google SRE techniques to scale the company’s highest throughput systems to handle billions of requests/month, meeting aggressive SLAs and SLOs. Hired/promoted managers and individual contributors to double a fully remote US-based team to 27 over six months. Assembled a highly diverse team, far surpassing software industry norms. Co-authored the company’s first Engineering Career Ladder, developed the first Individual Development Plan and spearheaded the first formal engineer training initiative.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, Mn, Us

Led engineering, product management, and technical operations for Atmosphere IoT, a platform integrating custom firmware, desktop software, mobile apps, a cloud platform, and a web-based low-code development IDE. Spearheaded significant changes across product management, engineering, quality, and operations to enable frequent releases with high quality. JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, C/C++, and AWS. Heavy focus on reinvigorating, developing, and realigning internal talent.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Co-founded Apruve, a checkout-based fintech solution for business-to-business payments in e-commerce, allowing receivables management via trade credit, financing, or factoring. Collaborated with co-founder to develop and execute fundraising plan, securing successful seed investment. Lead engineering, product, and operations. Hired first employees. Ruby-on-Rails, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku. Integrated over a dozen e-commerce and payment APIs. Established strategic banking relationships and ensured compliance with PCI, KYC, and AML. Executed multiple pivots while learning and raising venture capital. Awards and recognition from Silicon Valley Bank, MasterCard, Tech Cocktail, and Demo. Successful exit to Trevipay in 2022.

Founder of TelemetryWeb, a cloud-based device integration platform for rapid deployment of geospationally aware sensor networks, remote monitoring solutions, and connected smart devices. Delivered cloud platform services and specialized engineering and product management consulting for industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturers. MN Cup Semi-Finalist and Project Skyway tech accelerator.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Developed and managed software architecture for online SaaS platform which managed in excess of 50,000 vehicles across North America. Worked directly with executive-level management to propose, develop, and implement product strategy. Led technical design and prototyping efforts for next-generation product. Mentored team of software engineers to improve company R&D capabilities. Delivered software that works.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Software Architect for Gelco Expense Management, managing over $7B/year in secure business expense reimbursement transactions for thousands of businesses, representing over a half-million registered users. Led technical design and implementation for innovative product features. Served as key resource for PCI and SAS-70 compliance audits. Participated in sell-side mergers and acquisition team, assisting potential buyers in due-diligence efforts regarding the company's technology, intellectual property, and strategic road-map.Gelco Information Networks was acquired by Concur Technologies in October 2007, which was acquired by SAP in 2014.

Provided software architecture and engineering services for various medium- and large-scale enterprise clients, including GE Energy, Best Buy, Ecolab, CHEP, and Gearworks. Specialties included industrial machine data networks, procurement and logistics, e-commerce, and analytics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Communcations

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