Technical Diligence. Deal Execution.
Owned End to End.
Buy-Side Diligence · Sell-Side Representation · Post-Close Execution
I represent private equity in software transactions—buy-side and sell-side—where technical risk, platform debt, or hidden COGS can derail value. I lead technical diligence end-to-end, serve as the technical counterparty to buy-side diligence teams, and where required, execute the first 90 days post-close to ensure the investment thesis survives contact with reality. Post-close execution is not upsold. To date, every client has elected to retain me post-close—even when I advised that no remediation was required—to pursue additional value creation identified during diligence.
Trusted by deal teams who've lived the retrade, the escrow, and the 90-day fire drill—and want the same operator who found the risk to own the fix.
What I Do
Buy-Side Technical Diligence
- Lead technical diligence for software and tech-enabled acquisitions
- Identify platform risk, cost leakage, and scalability constraints
- Translate findings into underwriting-grade inputs and remediation plans
Sell-Side Technical Representation
- Act as technical counterpart to buyer diligence teams
- Prepare management and artifacts ahead of diligence
- Defend architecture decisions and contextualize technical debt
- Reduce retrade risk and diligence drag
Post-Close Execution
- Principal-led remediation where risk or value creation is material
- Aggressive cloud cost reduction
- Security and authentication rewrites
- Infrastructure modernization
Selected Outcomes
Delivered within 30 days post-close
- Reduced CloudFront costs by 60% and compute by 40%, directly expanding EBITDA
- Built modern Firebase authentication powering a Flutter-based mobile app for 2.5M users
- Deployed enterprise-grade web application firewalls across portfolio companies—closing security gaps that had persisted since inception, delivered in weeks
- Delivered cloud-native, self-service SSL white-labeling capability inside a legacy codebase
- Complete network re-architecture and production deployment after years of internal stagnation
- Zero-downtime region migration from us-west-1 to us-east-1
- Business continuity planning plus implementation of cross-account, multi-region disaster recovery
How I Operate
Four Principles
Hands-on-keyboard expertise across modern tech stacks and cloud platforms. I assess core IP, architecture, scalability, and team capability with engineering precision—delivering investment clarity where traditional advisors see only complexity.
I identify critical risks and quantify value-creation levers with enough precision for underwriting—without pretending to scope full remediation before gaining access and authority. Clear enough to price, honest about what remains unknown until Day One.
One operator, end-to-end. The principal who runs diligence runs remediation. No handoffs, no knowledge loss, no diluted ownership.
Capacity is capped to preserve depth and speed. Work is executed by the lead operator—never brokered to juniors or a separate “delivery” team.
Direct Access
Capacity is capped at three concurrent mandates to preserve principal-led execution.
For new mandates: include target ARR, deal stage (LOI / exclusivity / signed), and anticipated close date.