Current Expertise:

• C#
• .NET 4.X to Core 8
• ASP.NET MVC & WebAPI
• EntityFramework 6 & Core
• MSSQL 2008 - 2022
• Azure SQL
• Azure Functions
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• NodeJS
• HTML5/CSS (LESS)
• Azure & AWS
• Agile/Scrum

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 leading 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 15 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 lead include enhancing the property search system to a fully dynamic, meta-data-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 the processes in place and guiding team members in enhancing their development techniques, quality of code, and consistency in following standards.

InterNayt Development

Principal Consultant

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

I also continually update and improve my extensive template project, Fundament. It is a complete web application that includes everything needed to rapidly built new sites. The backend uses Azure SQL, Functions, and Queues. The middle tier is a .NET Core WebApi solution, supporting the frontend, hosted in a CDN, built with my custom jQuery-based SPA framework.

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

Recent Projects

• Fundament · The foundation of all my new projects.
• Volunteer Network OC · Mobile-First web app which helps local non-profits manage volunteers for their events. Built using Fundament and also published as a native app in both the Apple Store and Google Play Store.
• RefPaid · (Work In Progress) This project was built using Fundament and is a data management app for Referees to review what other local and national associations pay for their services.
• AmzAlert · I rebuilt their Amazon crawling system using Azure Functions, Queues, and Table Storage to improve performance and better handle scaling as their business grows. It now processes nearly 30k products every hour.

WorkWave

Principal Architect and Lead Developer

WorkWave acquired the startup I co-founded, RefGo, and they brought me on to handle integration into the WorkWave platform of services. 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 surveys module and a highly customizable lead management system, which included 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 integrated directly into the other SaaS offerings of the company via iFrame and API integration. The user interface was also able to be themed to match each product.

Zellba

Co-Founder, Architect and Developer

I used 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 a real estate agent. Get a head start on new listing opportunities and pay nothing unless you sell a home (and is 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 great on most smart devices and computers.

Having gone through a few prototypes of the site and trying out multiple frameworks (Classic ASP.NET WebForms/MVC, jQuery Mobile, Angular), none of them had the exact 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 using techniques learned from the other UI frameworks. I also regularly updated and added to the automated regression testing suite (C# Selenium-based) to make sure the main features of the site were robust anytime 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 allowed a small group of people to manage the daily deals site to grow the business to $1.1M a month in revenue.

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

As the Executive Director of Development for Spreebird, I continued my role as the architect and principal developer of the platform. 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 guided the addition of a mobile-friendly version of the website, iPhone and Android Apps, for both end users and merchants, and improved the performance of the site. 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 work-flow 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.