GSD is a fractional technology practice and an engineering team, built for mission-driven organizations. The people doing work that matters shouldn't have to choose between senior help and a budget they can live with.
Co-founder, Fractional CIO/CTO
Shiraz on LinkedInI've spent twenty years running engineering and security, mostly in healthcare, where the rules are strict and the consequences are real. I started GSD because the organizations I most wanted to help couldn't hire a technology department and shouldn't have to. Today I'm also CTO at ForthBridge.
On fractional work you get me directly. For day-to-day IT and builds, I scope, plan, and design the work, and the team carries it out. I step back as it stops needing me.
See the fractional practiceShiraz is on every engagement. On fractional work you get him directly. On day-to-day IT and builds he scopes, plans, and designs the work, and the team carries it out. No junior handoff once the ink is dry.
Before anyone builds anything, we get clear on what you're solving for. The right work gets a lot cheaper once we agree on where you're going, and you feel progress in weeks.
We teach your team to carry the routine and write the exit into the engagement from day one. We'd rather earn the next call than keep you dependent.
Honest tradeoffs, no acronym soup. You'll always know what matters, what can wait, and why.
Nonprofits and B Corps, founders building something with weight behind it, teams scaling under real stakes. What they share is a reason for the work beyond the work itself, and technology that has to hold up while they get on with it.
Mission-driven orgs get aligned pricing. The same senior people do the work, shaped to a nonprofit budget, because we want your energy on the mission while your technology holds up underneath you.
Senior engineers and operators who own the work end to end, drawing on a vetted bench of specialists when an engagement calls for it.
30+ years building the integration backbone of enterprise healthcare systems. Architected the XNet platform now running five health systems in production, and founded an integration-software company whose product is still in production two decades after it was acquired. GSD brings him in for interface engines, patient matching, and systems that have to talk to each other.
Cloud and systems engineer with 7+ years across healthcare, public sector, and SaaS: Azure infrastructure, IaC automation, network security, and compliance. Migrated critical infrastructure to Azure for up to 80% delivery gains, architected DR environments sustaining 99.9% uptime, and supported SOC 2 across all five trust principles at Thrasys and UpHealth. Owns delivery from architecture and migration through Tier-3 escalation and remediation.
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