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Jason Becht

CEO

Randall, Minnesota, United States27 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Reduced Situation Room escalations by 95% in 6 months.
  • Transformed client onboarding to same-day provisioning.
  • Led operational improvements in enterprise SaaS environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Healthcare expert with a focus on operational excellence and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform StrategyEngineering OperationsIncident ResponseInfrastructure ModernizationTechnical StrategyBusiness OutcomesSaas ArchitectureNetwork AdministrationNetwork Engineering

Other Skills

Organizational LeadershipIncident ManagementOperational AccountabilityTerraformAnsibleAWXRelease EngineeringQuality AssuranceCentOSRocky LinuxAWSGCPDistributed SystemsRuby on RailsKafka

About

I help engineering organizations see through operational chaos, reduce hidden drag, and move from reactive firefighting to predictable execution. My work sits at the intersection of platform strategy, engineering operations, reliability, incident response, release discipline, infrastructure modernization, and business outcomes. I focus on the systems around engineering teams: ownership, delivery flow, operational trust, automation, observability, decision hygiene, and the coordination costs that slow good teams down. Most of my experience has been in enterprise SaaS environments, especially healthcare and other regulated spaces, where reliability and execution directly affect revenue, customer retention, delivery confidence, and team health. In my most recent role, I operated at director-level scope across platform operations, release engineering, incident response, infrastructure modernization, and organizational execution. I led major operational improvements, including reducing Situation Room escalations by 95%, cutting MTTR by more than half, reducing release-related incidents by 5–10x, and redesigning client onboarding from 6–8 weeks to same-day provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and AWX. Before that, I spent over two decades running my own C-Corp consultancy, serving as founder, chief architect, and fractional CTO across healthcare, finance, and e-commerce clients. I owned both technical strategy and business outcomes. My strongest work happens when engineering organizations are noisy, fragile, slow, or stuck, and need someone who can find the real constraints, create operational clarity, and turn the system around.

Experience

27 yrs 6 mos
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Current Experience

Hhaexchange

Principal Engineer | Platform Strategy, Engineering Operations & Director-Level Platform Leadership

Aug 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos · United States · Remote

  • Principal engineering leader operating at director-level scope across platform operations, release engineering, incident response, infrastructure modernization, and enterprise SaaS platform stability in highly regulated healthcare environments.
  • Led strategic transformation across a 37–65 person engineering organization spanning platform reliability, delivery discipline, operational recovery, onboarding acceleration, and infrastructure modernization.
  • Selected Impact
  • Founded the Advanced Systems & Services Response Team (ASSRT), reducing Situation Room escalations by 95% within the first 3–6 months and cutting Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) by more than half
  • Re-engineered incident ownership, structured escalation paths, and operational accountability across DevOps, CloudOps, Engineering, Product, Security, and SRE teams
  • Transformed enterprise client onboarding from a manual 6–8 week, 60 engineer-week process into an automated same-day provisioning model using Terraform, Ansible, AWX, reusable environment templates, and standardized deployment patterns
  • Increased onboarding throughput from one client at a time to 2–3 enterprise clients per day, accelerating revenue realization and reducing implementation risk
  • Replaced daily emergency deployment culture with a disciplined 2-week Release Candidate (RC) model including mandatory code freezes, QA gates, rollback standards, hotfix policy, and executive go/no-go controls
  • Reduced release-related incidents by 5–10x, significantly improved customer satisfaction, and restored executive confidence in delivery predictability
  • Architected and executed the migration of 250+ production instances from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8, ensuring zero-downtime continuity for mission-critical healthcare workflows
  • Partnered directly with executive leadership on platform investment decisions, operational risk reduction, release discipline, and global engineering effectiveness across onshore and offshore teams
SaaS ArchitectureOrganizational LeadershipPlatform StrategyEngineering Operations

Cryptech studios

Founder | Chief Architect | Managing Director

Jan 2001Aug 2022 · 21 yrs 7 mos · Motley, MN

  • Founded and operated a C-Corp technology consultancy for 21+ years, serving as chief architect, fractional CTO, and senior technical authority across healthcare, finance, e-commerce, education, and regulated enterprise environments.
  • Owned full P&L responsibility, client strategy, architecture leadership, delivery execution, hiring, team design, and long-term operational success across multiple concurrent enterprise engagements.
  • Led platform modernization initiatives focused on scalable SaaS architecture, distributed systems, infrastructure reliability, and operational sustainability across AWS, GCP, bare metal, and hybrid environments.
  • Selected Impact
  • Designed and delivered cloud-native SaaS platforms and modernization strategies for SMB and enterprise clients across healthcare, finance, and e-commerce sectors
  • Served as fractional CTO and executive technical advisor, aligning engineering execution with business outcomes, growth strategy, and operational risk management
  • Built and led multi-disciplinary engineering teams by hiring and managing engineers, contractors, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) based on project scale and delivery complexity
  • Established durable platform architecture patterns emphasizing low-coupling, operational stability, long-term maintainability, and predictable system evolution
  • Led legacy modernization efforts transforming tightly coupled monolithic systems into resilient event-driven platforms using Ruby on Rails, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native infrastructure patterns
  • Managed full client lifecycle from acquisition and solution design through delivery, deployment, operational support, and long-term client retention
  • Maintained executive ownership across both technical strategy and business operations, ensuring delivery quality, profitability, and sustained client trust
SaaS ArchitectureOrganizational LeadershipTechnical StrategyBusiness Outcomes

Jdl technologies

Network Engineer / Tier 3 Support Technician

Apr 1998Dec 1999 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Provided infrastructure engineering, network administration, and advanced operational support across distributed education and enterprise environments nationwide, including the U.S. Virgin Islands.
  • Supported local and remote systems management, Linux/Unix administration, production reliability, and complex network operations.
  • Designed and developed a hybrid satellite transmission protocol for partner company Onsat Communications, supporting Linux/Unix-based hybrid network environments and large-scale remote connectivity.
Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure ModernizationNetwork Administration

Minnesota online

Network Engineer

Jun 1997Apr 1998 · 10 mos

  • Network and System Engineer
Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseNetwork Engineering

Education

Anoka Technical College

GED

Saint Cloud Business College

Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS — Accounting and Business/Management

St. Cloud State University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

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