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Anthony Putignano

Philadelphia, PA

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with two decades of experience. I've helped many organizations improve scalability, accelerate innovation, enable enterprise sales, get buggy releases under control, reduce OpEx, and much more. Specialties include: application architecture and security, cloud architecture and security, DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, and compliance (SOC2, FedRAMP, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI). How can I help you?

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Ask a Growth Stage SaaS CTO How to Enable Enterprise Sales

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with nearly two decades of experience. My teams and I have delivered products reaching sustained results of:

* Nearly 1,000 enterprise customer accounts
* Over 1 million monthly active users
* $5 million in ARR
* 100% net retention
* ~30% year-over-year growth in new business

As a technical leader, I've owned or otherwise engaged in:

* Technical vision
* Strategy design
* Leadership by objective
* Consensus building
* Recruitment and growth of early-stage product teams
* Ownership of $1m+ CapEx and OpEx budget lines
* Delivery and maintenance of complex SaaS platforms leveraging REST APIs, big data, and serverless plugin architectures

I've also managed significant security, privacy, and compliance milestones:

* Creation of an Information Security Policy and Secure Software Development Lifecycle modeled after NIST 800-53 Moderate
* SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR compliance

I keep up my tech chops through continued consulting and by engaging hands-on with:

* Communities like Hacker News, StackOverflow, etc
* A growing list of programming languages, databases, and object storage systems
* DevOps and SRE movements
* Emerging technologies such as voice assistants and machine learning systems

Ask a Growth Stage SaaS CTO About Cloud Architecture, DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with nearly two decades of experience. My teams and I have delivered products reaching sustained results of:

* Nearly 1,000 enterprise customer accounts
* Over 1 million monthly active users
* $5 million in ARR
* 100% net retention
* ~30% year-over-year growth in new business

As a technical leader, I've owned or otherwise engaged in:

* Technical vision
* Strategy design
* Leadership by objective
* Consensus building
* Recruitment and growth of early-stage product teams
* Ownership of $1m+ CapEx and OpEx budget lines
* Delivery and maintenance of complex SaaS platforms leveraging REST APIs, big data, and serverless plugin architectures

I've also managed significant security, privacy, and compliance milestones:

* Creation of an Information Security Policy and Secure Software Development Lifecycle modeled after NIST 800-53 Moderate
* SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR compliance

I keep up my tech chops through continued consulting and by engaging hands-on with:

* Communities like Hacker News, StackOverflow, etc
* A growing list of programming languages, databases, and object storage systems
* DevOps and SRE movements
* Emerging technologies such as voice assistants and machine learning systems

Ask a Growth Stage SaaS CTO How to Scale Tech, Enable Enterprise Sales, Etc

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with nearly two decades of experience. My teams and I have delivered products reaching sustained results of:

* Nearly 1,000 enterprise customer accounts
* Over 1 million monthly active users
* $5 million in ARR
* 100% net retention
* ~30% year-over-year growth in new business

As a technical leader, I've owned or otherwise engaged in:

* Technical vision
* Strategy design
* Leadership by objective
* Consensus building
* Recruitment and growth of early-stage product teams
* Ownership of $1m+ CapEx and OpEx budget lines
* Delivery and maintenance of complex SaaS platforms leveraging REST APIs, big data, and serverless plugin architectures

I've also managed significant security, privacy, and compliance milestones:

* Creation of an Information Security Policy and Secure Software Development Lifecycle modeled after NIST 800-53 Moderate
* SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR compliance

I keep up my tech chops through continued consulting and by engaging hands-on with:

* Communities like Hacker News, StackOverflow, etc
* A growing list of programming languages, databases, and object storage systems
* DevOps and SRE movements
* Emerging technologies such as voice assistants and machine learning systems

Ask a Growth Stage SaaS CTO About Architecture, Scaling, InfoSec, and Much More

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with nearly two decades of experience. My teams and I have delivered products reaching sustained results of:

* Nearly 1,000 enterprise customer accounts
* Over 1 million monthly active users
* $5 million in ARR
* 100% net retention
* ~30% year-over-year growth in new business

As a technical leader, I've owned or otherwise engaged in:

* Technical vision
* Strategy design
* Leadership by objective
* Consensus building
* Recruitment and growth of early-stage product teams
* Ownership of $1m+ CapEx and OpEx budget lines
* Delivery and maintenance of complex SaaS platforms leveraging REST APIs, big data, and serverless plugin architectures

I've also managed significant security, privacy, and compliance milestones:

* Creation of an Information Security Policy and Secure Software Development Lifecycle modeled after NIST 800-53 Moderate
* SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR compliance

I keep up my tech chops through continued consulting and by engaging hands-on with:

* Communities like Hacker News, StackOverflow, etc
* A growing list of programming languages, databases, and object storage systems
* DevOps and SRE movements
* Emerging technologies such as voice assistants and machine learning systems

Ask a Growth Stage SaaS CTO How to Enable Enterprise Sales

Former SaaS startup co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO with nearly two decades of experience. My teams and I have delivered products reaching sustained results of:

* Nearly 1,000 enterprise customer accounts
* Over 1 million monthly active users
* $5 million in ARR
* 100% net retention
* ~30% year-over-year growth in new business

As a technical leader, I've owned or otherwise engaged in:

* Technical vision
* Strategy design
* Leadership by objective
* Consensus building
* Recruitment and growth of early-stage product teams
* Ownership of $1m+ CapEx and OpEx budget lines
* Delivery and maintenance of complex SaaS platforms leveraging REST APIs, big data, and serverless plugin architectures

I've also managed significant security, privacy, and compliance milestones:

* Creation of an Information Security Policy and Secure Software Development Lifecycle modeled after NIST 800-53 Moderate
* SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR compliance

I keep up my tech chops through continued consulting and by engaging hands-on with:

* Communities like Hacker News, StackOverflow, etc
* A growing list of programming languages, databases, and object storage systems
* DevOps and SRE movements
* Emerging technologies such as voice assistants and machine learning systems

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Anthony Putignano answered

Will extended offsites and company retreats become a thing?

With the exception of the "extended" qualifier, I believe the answer is yes. I have extensive experience growing remote engineering teams. As somebody else here mentioned, extended offsites are difficult because schedules are tough to coordinate, people have families, etc. However, it is very common for remote teams to have anywhere from 1-4 offsite meetups per year - anywhere from 3-7 days in length - where a combination of work and play occur. The more the better, but the frequency and length tends to be dictated by budget. These are great opportunities to build culture and rally around big projects. As more companies go remote, I suspect they'll find the same types of offsites and cadences making sense for them.

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Anthony Putignano answered

Can you be the founder of a saas startup if you're not a tech person?

I'm a former early-stage SaaS co-founder and growth-stage SaaS CTO.

Many tech startups - including the ones I've been personally involved in - are co-founded by one person who focuses on business and operations and another who focuses on tech.

You should definitely focus first on gaining validation. Early validation doesn't usually require technology. For example, it is easy to conduct surveys and interviews, it is easy to deploy ads and landing pages, etc. Once you have some meaningful validation, you should ask *yourself* some key questions:
- Why are you and your team uniquely suited to grow this business?
- Why now?
- Why isn’t anyone else already doing it or why do you have the upper hand on them?

If you can answer those questions - fairly and confidently - then you have every right to consider yourself an important half of a co-founding equation. You will - of course - at this point need to bring in someone more technical. You will be reliant on them for the tech, but they will be reliant on you for everything else - business acumen, inside knowledge, connections, the things only you can bring to the table. A good technical co-founder will understand that an idea is just a seed, but it takes the right business partner to make it come to life.

Check out this recent blog post I wrote on the role of an early-stage CTO, how to find one and compensate one, etc:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/startups-burning-questions-ctos-answered-anthony-putignano/

If you have any further questions, let me know!

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Throughout our call, Anthony provided thorough, clear, and concise answers that made complex cybersecurity concepts easy to grasp. What stood out was his ability to address my specific questions and concerns with tailored, insightful responses. It was evident that he’s dealt with similar situations before, as his advice was not only practical but also highly relevant to my unique needs. He shared a lot of valuable gems during the conversation, making it a truly informative and productive session

Taz Ismail Source: Clarity

Anthony is an incredible asset to my team. Anthony has a deep understanding of the process an entrepreneur needs to take to identify a problem and test if a solution is worth pursuing. He shares his own experiences and uses analogies to help me understand and navigate entrepreneurial situations. His insights save me time which is my most valuable asset.

Kari Kurtz Source: Clarity

Anthony is very knowledgeable and to the point. Answered all of my questions and concerns regarding GDPR/CCPA. I definitely would recommend and am looking forward to working with him again in the future.

Noel Kim Source: Clarity

Anthony is extremely helpful and very concise. He goes above and beyond what is asked of him to provide tailored advice and feasible action items. I'm looking forward to working more with him in the future!

Juliette Mann Source: Clarity

Member since May 2020