Current Expertise:

• C#
• .NET 4.X to 11
• ASP.NET MVC & WebAPI
• EntityFramework
• MSSQL 2008 - 2022
• Azure SQL
• Azure Functions
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• NodeJS
• HTML5/CSS (LESS)
• Azure & AWS
• Agile/Scrum
• GitHub Copilot

Nayt Grochowski

Internet Entrepreneur

Software Architect, Father, Referee

Over 30 years of development, architecture, and project management experience. A solution architect and full-stack developer with extensive experience using the Microsoft stack for the backend and many frontend frameworks, including building my own.

I have developed hundreds of applications as the sole developer or as the lead on small teams. I have also co-founded multiple successful startups, handling all technical aspects of the business.

My consulting experience, combined with co-founding multiple startups, has given me a deep understanding of business needs and the expertise to work directly with executives and product owners to create a system that efficiently meets their requirements.

Outside my professional life, I enjoy refereeing soccer and basketball and taking road trips with my family. I have been an official for over 20 years and am a certified referee instructor and mentor.

RES.NET Real Estate Systems

Senior Software Architect

I am responsible for working with the development team to maintain the extensive suite of existing software that RES.NET has built over the last 20 years, with the long-term goal of modernizing and improving its overall architecture.

A few of the new projects that I have led include enhancing the property search system to a fully dynamic, metadata-driven system that allows users to generate fully customized searches and export them. The development of a centralized PDF service to offload processing overhead and centralize all logic for easier creation of PDF documents from multiple sources. I am also working on building out a service-based architecture to centralize and distribute the process of many standard features.

I am a team leader and mentor in the development group, improving existing processes and guiding team members to enhance their development techniques, code quality, and consistency in adhering to standards.

InterNayt Development

Principal Consultant

As a technology consultant, I work with many businesses, focusing on building web-based solutions. I help companies by learning how their business works, identifying where they have issues or redundancies, and designing and building systems to support their growth.

I also work with many people who have ideas for new businesses and love the start-up environment. From consulting on architecture and system design to full implementation, I am always looking for partners with great ideas I can help bring to life.

WorkWave

Principal Architect and Lead Developer

WorkWave acquired the startup I co-founded, RefGo, and brought me on to handle the integration of services into the WorkWave platform. I was also responsible for architecting and developing new features and leading the team that created marketing tools for integration with the other WorkWave SaaS products.

Features included modules for collecting and managing business reviews and service reports via email and SMS. We also built a simple survey module and a highly customizable lead management system, including an agreement PDF generator and an e-signature system that I designed and built. The system also included marketing automation modules that supported both bulk and drip email campaigns.

The system was designed to run stand-alone or be integrated directly with the company's other SaaS offerings via iFrame and API integration. The user interface could also be themed to match each product.

Zellba

Co-Founder, Architect and Developer

I reused the framework built to support RefGo to create this mobile-first web application. Zellba was a new marketplace for home sellers and real estate agents; here is a description of the product:

Home Sellers: Let agents compete to sell your home. Find an agent you like and trust to sell your home. Compare meeting requests from agents who would like to help you sell your home – without sharing your contact info.

Real Estate Agents: Reach sellers looking for an agent. Get a head start on new listing opportunities and pay nothing unless you sell a home (and it was free during our beta period).

RefGo

Co-Founder, Architect and Developer

I was responsible for the design, implementation, testing, and production maintenance of our review management web application. I focused on building a fast, easy-to-use, mobile-first website that worked well on most smartphones and computers.

Having gone through a few prototypes of the site and tried out multiple frameworks (Classic ASP.NET WebForms/MVC, jQuery Mobile, Angular), none of them had exactly the functionality I wanted. I decided to build the system from the ground up, using ASP.NET MVC as the backend foundation and a custom client-side jQuery-based framework, drawing on techniques learned from other UI frameworks. I also regularly updated and expanded the automated regression testing suite (C# Selenium-based) to ensure the site's main features remained robust whenever an update was released.

Local Corporation (Spreebird)

Lead Developer, Architect, Manager

I was a founding partner of Screamin' Daily Deals and helped to build a business that was sold to Local Corporation for $12.5M in just 18 months. I brought technology and development expertise to the team and handled the complete implementation of the system.

The administrative system I built enabled a small team to manage the daily deals site and grow the business to $1.1M in gross revenue per month.

As the Executive Director of Development for Spreebird, I maintained my role as the platform's architect and principal developer. While I also recruited and managed a team of developers to help maintain and improve the Spreebird Platform.

During my time at Local Corporation, I led the addition of a mobile-friendly version of the website, iPhone and Android Apps for both end users and merchants, and improved the site's performance. I also continued to improve the administration portions of the site and add new features to support product deals, travel deals and more.

Here are a few of the key features:

• A scalable website that supported over 50K unique visitors daily on a single web server, and could scale as needed.
• A custom workflow system to manage the deal creation, scheduling, and business data
• Email processing system that handled over 1M customized daily alerts
• Included automated processing for CAN-SPAM compliance
• Order processing system that handled over $1M in transactions monthly
• Merchant Dashboard that allows online management of vouchers and redemptions
• Complete financial reporting for management teams to track performance
• Commission tracking for sales staff and partners, along with automated statement generation
• PDF generator for vouchers, statements, and more
• Graphics generation system for customized banner ads with a dynamic deal display for partners
• Once acquired by Local Corporation, Nayt recruited and managed a team of developers to build out these features:
  • HTML5 Mobile version, iPhone and Android apps for Members and Merchants
  • Rewards / Customer Loyalty system for Merchants
  • Private-Label version of Daily Deals and Rewards
  • Merchant CRM: customer data management and email marketing tools

Ready-Flex-Go

Partner / Solutions Architect and Developer

A provider of development services for graphic design and marketing firms, I brought my system architecture and development expertise to the partnership. Using the Ready-Flex-Go Framework that I created, we delivered over 300 sites on time, with short time-frames and with limited resources.

The framework consisted of a custom class library and collection of business modules that extended and enhanced the .NET Framework. The business modules included security, content management, e-commerce, blogs, newsletters, customer management, community and more.