Drew DeNardo
Deeply technical. People-first.
Strategic technology leader with more than twelve years of executive leadership. I have decades of managerial experience building exceptionally high-performing teams and products for startups and Fortune 50 companies. I am a people-first leader who is also deeply technical and hands-on.
About Me
Hi! I’m Drew DeNardo, a technology leader with decades of successes at startups and large enterprises, including several with annual revenues in the billions of US$. I have a track record of building and running high-performing teams spanning engineering, QA, DevOps, and Agile & Lean processes in a wide range of industries including Medical Devices, FinTech, Telecomm infrastructure, MVNOs, Social Media, and AdTech. I am passionate about mentoring people at the manager and director levels, helping to build leaders who support the humans who deliver value for our businesses and delight our customers. I’m equally comfortable in the C-Suite, an IDE, and the data center.
“What’s HAFF?” I founded HAFF Technologies, LLC to support the consulting work I started in 2025.
Quick Facts
Current Role
VP, Enterprise Architecture at insightsoftware.com
Fractional CTO at Jogo Health
Education
LaSalle University, Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science (1993)
Languages
English (Native)
Interests
Skills
Combining decades of hands-on technology experience with deep expertise in organizational development and a no-nonsense human-first approach.
Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
Continuous Improvement
Mentoring
Process Expertise
Leading People
Technology Strategy
Distributed Teams
Experience
From leading teams to designing and implementing systems using forward-thinking technologies, my career tells a story of meaningful impact.
insightsoftware.com
VP, Enterprise Architecture
Connected Solutions for the Office of the CFO
Key Achievements
- Collaborating with engineering, IT, and operations leaders to apply architectural patterns and cloud-native principles at enterprise scale
- Growing AI capabilities across the organization to drive team impact and efficiency
Key Achievements
- Working with development teams to increase AI adoption and improve processes, tooling, and architecture
Jogo Health, Inc.
Fractional CTO
Jogo provides a non-invasive, medication-free solution for pain and neuromuscular disorders.
Key Achievements
- Setting the company’s long-term technology strategy and roadmap
- Running the onshore & offshore teams that build our mobile apps and B2B SaaS platform
- Stewarding Product Management at the company
- Establishing and maintaining the company’s IT infrastructure
HAFF Technologies LLC
Enterprise Java Consultant
Client builds systems for managing and leveraging AI deployments to solve engineering problems at scale.
Key Achievements
- Producing “code as training data” for AI models and evaluation data for the science team necessary to deliver Agents capable of excelling in the Enterprise Java domain
- Code reviews of Java, C, and C++ pull requests
- Providing examples of best practices for versions of Java from 8-21
Comcast, Inc.
Executive Director
Comcast's XFINITY brand is one of the largest Internet and TV providers in the world
Key Achievements
- Led team of 25 architects and analysts responsible for enterprise architecture, designs, and API contracts for a team of ~400 developers
- Reduced mean time-in-design from 12 weeks to 3 weeks by streamlining process and cross-team engagement
Key Achievements
- Led teams of ~120 building Comcast’s Digital Order Entry infrastructure
- Reduced SEV1 outages from one every 60 days to zero over 36 consecutive months
Key Achievements
- Embedded with Charter Cable to help launch Spectrum Mobile
- Owned the on-the-ground technical relationship between Charter & Comcast
Key Achievements
- Built Android, iOS, and web client teams for XFINITY Mobile from the ground up
- Established the organization’s foundational agile processes
Key Achievements
- Launched XFINITY Mobile, growing the engineering team from zero to ~80
MeetMe, Inc.
Director of Engineering
MeetMe helps you find new people nearby who share your interests and want to chat now!
Key Achievements
- Led the Engineering team that delivered and operated a website and apps that supported over 1MM daily active users
- Authored and implemented processes that drastically reduced MeetMe’s number of emergency and maintenance releases for their mobile clients from 15 emergency patch releases in 2014 to 2 emergency patch releases in 2015
- Streamlined the code review process, leading to a 3x reduction in the average daily code review backlog, without compromising quality
- Developed a system based upon Amazon’s Redshift that provided MeetMe’s product team the capability to run daily and ad-hoc queries against a collection of hundreds of millions of end-user events
Comcast Interactive Media
Sr. Manager
Comcast's XFINITY brand is one of the largest Internet and TV providers in the world
Key Achievements
- Expanded scope to lead XFINITY TV Go, XFINITY StreamTV, and XFINITY MyAccount app teams
- Assumed responsibility for the iOS team
Key Achievements
- Built Comcast’s first internal Android development team from scratch
- Delivered XFINITY TV Remote, XFINITY TV Go, and XFINITY StreamTV
Key Achievements
- Led CIM’s Java middleware development team focused on comcast.net offerings
Various
Pre-2010 roles
Key Achievements
- Please see LinkedIn for a detailed list
Technical Skills
Technical expertise spanning software development, the cloud, and engineering technologies. This section shows highlights, not an exhaustive list.
Platforms
Programming Languages
Cloud Platforms
Databases
Networking
Development Tools
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Contact Information
Let's connect! I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.