Work
Projects I’ve built and kept running, alongside the people who use them. For my wider experience, read my résumé.
Case studies
Big’s Backyard Ultra720+ affiliated races in 82 countries, grown from one race in a Tennessee backyard, on a platform I build and run.
WTC 2026 dashboard67 nations, 990 runners, followed live on a dashboard built from the race directors’ Google Sheet, opened about 2.4 million times from 158 countries in race week.
GVRAT19,600+ runners signed up in 2020 for a virtual race planned for 2,000. I built the race system solo during COVID, and it has run every year since.
Tunnel Hill 100A race website built from scratch for one of ultrarunning’s fastest courses. In the race director’s words, it’s “lightning fast now.”
Circumpolar Race Around the World (CRAW)54,949 registrations from 7,329 participants in 48 countries, for a 30,167-mile team relay around the world, from 2020 to 2024.
Megan EckertA website for the women’s six-day world record holder, including an interactive chart of all 1,140 laps of her record run.Case study coming soon
Experience
2012–now
Fractional CTO · Bedrock Sandals
Infrastructure and security lead, 2012 – 2026
- Technology leadership across systems, infrastructure, security, digital operations, data and delivery for a company I’ve worked with since it was a grassroots brand. Fractional CTO since August 2026.
- Work with leadership and operations to turn business needs into practical solutions, automation and AI-enabled workflows.
- Lead technology initiatives, vendors, implementation and QA, and stay hands-on with engineering, analysis and troubleshooting.
- Before that, nearly 14 years as infrastructure and security lead: zero-trust access with role-based permissions and hardware-backed MFA across Google Workspace and Shopify Plus; DMARC, DKIM and SPF for every sending service; third-party app audits, customer data protection and PCI-DSS hardening for the store; DNS, SSL/TLS certificates and network configuration.
2014–now
Founder and principal consultant · Independent practice
- Technology partner and advisory board member for Big’s Backyard Ultra since 2020: built the affiliation system for 720+ races in 82 countries, and build and run the website, members platform, race catalogue, results and certificates, along with the servers they run on.
- Built GVRAT solo in under a week during lockdown: planned for 2,000 runners, joined by 19,600+ from 70+ countries, and run every year since.
- Owned the Circumpolar Race Around the World (CRAW) end to end for four years as its sole engineer, with 54,949 registrations from 7,329 participants in 48 countries.
- Build client websites with AI coding agents under a spec-driven, reviewed and tested process, including Tunnel Hill 100, Megan Eckert’s world-record site and a law practice’s client intake.
- Before that, in New Zealand, digital project manager at One Fat Sheep.
Big’s Backyard Ultra case study →GVRAT case study →CRAW case study →
2016–now
Founder · Freedom Seat Foundation
A tandem-cycling initiative against human trafficking: 17,000+ km across 15 countries with 500+ riders.
2013–2014
Project manager · VMware
Directed end-to-end testing and release for four global IT automation and product releases across at least 14 business units, coordinating about 30 people. All four shipped on time.
2008–2013
Project lead · Cognizant
Test lead
Led testing for clients with onshore and offshore teams: image and data capture solutions for Emdeon (now Change Healthcare), where defects reaching its customers fell significantly, and projects for Copart, the vehicle auction company.
2006–2008
Software test engineer · Cerner, now Oracle Health
Tested electronic health records: registration, scheduling, order entry and revenue cycle.
2004–2006
Technical support expert, enterprise · Dell
First-level support for enterprise customers from Bangalore: guided nontechnical staff through server troubleshooting on Windows, Linux and Unix, identified replacement parts and kept each incident moving until it was resolved. Also tested device drivers for OptiPlex, Latitude and PowerEdge systems, and wireless protocols.
Clients
Companies I’ve worked for and with
- Emdeon
Testimonials
This page is the more artistically beautiful interpretation of data I could ever imagine … Thank you for adding SO MUCH to the behind-the-screen spectator experience of the Backyard Ultra World Team Championship! … ANY sport would be fortunate to have you making their data look this good! (And in real time, no less!)
Naresh, this dashboard is really something! The details, insights and usability is superb. It makes this years World Teams so much fun to follow along.
His use of development methodology helped ensure code worked to specification and significantly decreased our number of defects that made it to our external customers eyes. … I would highly recommend Naresh and use him again if the opportunity presented itself.
No matter the stress, whether it be in office or out in the wilderness he cherishes, he is the first one to stay optimistic and help the people around him work through the stress. … stays strong until the job is done.
He picked up the knowledge of our business quickly and was able to competently lead the testing of our projects with both on- and off-shore resources. I would definitely work with Naresh again.
As an Integrated Test lead and PM at VMware … Naresh took the initiative to seek out subject matter experts and document complex processes which resulted in smooth testing.
He was invaluable to our project, very well liked, I was sorry to see him take another opportunity, and would gladly hire him again in the future.
Work once delegated to Naresh, can be deemed as done.
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