Fernando Cardenas

Advisor

Maigent

Apr 2026 - Current (4 months)

Helping Maigent as it transforms the future.

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Chief Product and Technology Officer

Jun 2025 - Apr 2026 (11 months)

Built the initial versions of a personal AI for CEOs to help connect them to funders, customers, employees, partners, and service providers.

Chief Technology Officer

MBO Partners

Jan 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 6 months)

Joined MBO to replace a legacy system and set up the company for a sale. Within 3.5 years, we replaced our core system that processes ~$1BN in payments to independents, recapitalized MBO, and sold the company.

Director Enterprise Architecture

Transamerica

Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Contributor to strategy that moved entire technology infrastructure (hundreds of applications, mainframe, databases, batch job, etc.) to AWS from on-prem footprint. Also created archtiecture for application modernization, enhanced secuirty patterns and practices, and more.

Enterprise Architect

Transamerica

Sep 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 3 months)

The enterprise architect on a team of folks creating a cloud migration plan for all Workplace Division infrastructure assets in addition to helping create the underpinnings for a platform architecture.

VP Software

Faction Inc

Apr 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 4 months)

Built a portal in 8 weeks to help attach cloud storge to VMware Cloud on AWS.

Chief Technology Officer

Fangage Inc

Jul 2017 - Dec 2021 (4 years 6 months)

Built the software that connected brands, agencies, and celebrities to fans. Adopted by many professional US sports teams (football, basketball, hockey).

Chief Technology Officer

MarketOnce

Jan 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Architected and ubilt the foundations of a market research platform and improved the existing market research panels.

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Managing Partner

MarketOncecom

Jan 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Mentor & CTO Coach

Boomtown Innovation

Apr 2014 - Apr 2019 (5 years 1 month)

Advising CEOs and CTOs as they start their new venture.

Chief Technology Officer

TalentRiot

Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 (3 years)

We help companies build custom software by providing them with specialized software developers.

Founder/CEO

TalentRiot

Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 (3 years)

We help companies build custom software by providing them with specialized software developers.

VP Information and Technology

UsingMilescom

Apr 2012 - Dec 2012 (9 months)

Turned around a struggling technology organization and sold the company.

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Chief Architect

Digital Folio Inc

Jun 2010 - Feb 2012 (1 year 9 months)

I was responsible for managing a team of software developers and testers to build a retail platform to help consumers save money and help large bricks ‘n clicks retailers make more money. The whole solution was built from the ground-up in Windows Azure Cloud and there was no existing software or technical team. • In under 15 months, the technology that my team built from scratch was favorably reviewed by Walt Mossberg of the Wall St. Journal • In under 6 months, our company was invited into Microsoft BizSpark One, their invitation-only program for high-potential startups • Hired all individuals in development and testing roles (I was the first technical hire) • Built secure, scalable, SOA architecture that runs on HTML, Silverlight, and mob

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Founder

AppVenture Inc

Oct 2005 - Apr 2010 (4 years 7 months)

Helping companies improve their software development capabilities through better tools and processes.

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Owner

Strategic Solution Group

Oct 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 1 month)

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Tecnical Associate

ZEFER

Jan 1998 - Dec 2001 (4 years)

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