Greg Venech

Stepped back from the director seat to build full time; trading hiring, coaching and meetings for AI exploration and shipping features / fixes end to end with the team.

• Set early specs and architecture, then build alongside the team across the stack.
• Took AI tooling from company mandate to team choice (Cursor → Claude / Pi).
• Keep every team in the loop so cross-team decisions actually stick.
• Hands-on from the UI through GraphQL down to the data and CQRS layers.

Grew from senior engineer to director, scaling the UI org while migrating a large app off AngularJS from the inside out.

• Built a React/Redux bridge to drop React into Angular at any level of the app.
• Swapped out AngularJS piece by piece for a Vite build without ever pausing releases.
• Owned the UI from under 100 users to 5k+ weekly, most of them power users.
• Hired and led the UI team through Series C and beyond.

Designed and built the front end of CrossLink, a threat-investigation platform used by agencies and enterprises.

• Product owner and tech lead through four major API and GUI versions.
• Put a GUI on top of the REST API and CLI so analysts didn't have to write code.
• Grew with the company from ~15 to ~50 while it stayed flat and fast.

UI Engineer (Fitch Ratings) and UI intern (Center for Technology in Government) — see gregvenech.com. Before getting into tech, I waited tables, washed dishes, built furniture, delivered newspapers, and worked in a library.