Steve M.

Experienced CTO, Founder & CEO

Former founder, long-time CTO & fractional CTO across a wide variety of industries, from software to manufacturing to health care and more. I come from a family of builders and love to help early & often in building products, services, and companies.

I focus on early-stage startups, pre-seed through Series A, running engineering, building processes, improving security, fixing outsourcing issues, and delivering products faster and better. I also write a l ot (see Medium) on startup issues,…

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Work

Cashflow Management in Startups
- Chief Financial Officer
- Accounting
Cash is king in startups, but there is never enough of it to go around. In this E-Book, Steve Mushero covers basic strategies you can use to manage your revenue, vendors, payroll, budgets and more. Includes hard-won experience in the psychology of partial payments, keeping vendors at bay, keeping employee attached, etc.
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Tech Article & Series
- Minimum Viable Product
- DevOps
Variety of Medium articles on DevOps, MVPs, Startup Tech Challenges, and more.
steve-mushero.medium.com
Process Optimization Project
Helped mid-size Series B SaaS company improve and optimize their complex development processes, helping improve productivity, remove bottlenecks, and deliver their product faster.
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Experience

Eviset
Fractional CTO
Jan 2024 - Present
Take over and manage engineering efforts, including offshore resources, wrote PRD, manage infrastructure, testing, reviews, and ongoing product devleopment.
- Got MVP build and to market on time and budget
LiveSpace
Fractional CTO
Oct 2021 - Present
Launched new live-streaming platform for music and media creators, focused on engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, helping manage outsource teams, building up large-scale cloud infrastructure, setting standards, scaling, etc. On Google Cloud with Terraform, CI/CD, Security, automation, observability, and more.
- Overhauled platform, delivered dozens of new features, manage team, new processes, and infrastructure
ChinaNetCloud
CEO & CTO
Jul 2008 - Jun 2021
Founding CEO & CTO of China’s first Cloud Computing and Internet Managed Services company. ChinaNetCloud provided managed hosting, cloud computing, and full-server system administration to China and overseas Internet and gaming companies. Serving hundreds of customers with 125 employees, we were the market leader for 12+ years in the challenging Chinese Internet environment. We were also AWS's launch partner in China and their first MSP there. As co-founder, CEO, CTO, CFO, and CMO, I was responsible for building the company, including world-class operations, technology, and tooling, plus hiring, training, and managing Chinese system engineers in a wide array of technologies, including operations, engineering, IT, and services.
- Built and exited VC-funded tech company in China
Tudou
CTO
Sep 2007 - May 2008
CTO of Tuduo, China’s largest video-sharing website, both older and larger than Youtube at the time. I managed large-scale operations, data centers, CDNs, and 7x24 sysadmin for thousand of servers providing 100 million videos per day to tens of millions of users, all before DevOps, clouds, or any modern technology was available.
- Managed and delivered world's largest video platform, CDN, and infrastructure.
New Vine Logistics
CTO / Director of Technology
Mar 2005 - Aug 2007
CTO and Head of Technology for late-stage VC-backed Logistics and Compliance provider to the wine industry. Company leveraged state-of-the-art ERP, Warehouse, Financial, and Web Service systems to manage complex state-level legal and reporting requirements. Role included managing numerous development activities, upgrades of major systems, data center consolidation, and infrastructure upgrades, while providing support for 100%+ annual growth.
- Managed entire tech infrastructure and platform, managed engineering team