About Pinecone Partners
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Technology that lets you grow, faster.
We fix your code + tech team so you can scale your startup
Pinecone Partners are a team of technology experts who transform the software teams at fast growing companies. We work with organisations of all sizes to identify, deliver and support their technology needs and fuel rapid business growth.
Partner clients
Our Services
We use our broad experience and depth of expertise to solve your most complicated and pressing technology problems. For some, this means Pinecone's engineers delivering performant and maintainable code. For others, it means Pinecone's leadership developing your existing team to meet the future demands of your business.
Application Development
We make complex software development projects simple. Identifying client requirements, building clear roadmaps, and executing using the right tools and technologies. Our approach ensures that our clients get a high-quality product that meets their business needs, without the responsibility of navigating the technical complexities.
Software Performance
We’re experts in diagnosing and resolving performance issues to improve your technology’s reliability and speed. Our depth of expertise allows us to identify potential performance issues before they become a problem, helping you to stay ahead of the curve and ensure that your software performs optimally at all times.
Delivery
We implement processes that allow us to measure and improve your software delivery process. We focus on lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recover, change failure rate, and customer satisfaction. The changes that we implement result in faster, more reliable software delivery and more profitability.
Risk Mitigation
Software companies are often in a position of risk. Ageing architectures, and overwhelmed teams can lead to long cycle times and eventual disaster. We help companies shore up their systems and organisational structures to mitigate risk, avoiding costly errors which stunt growth.
Artificial Intelligence
Recent advances in AI are changing the way business gets done. We're highly specialised in developing AI applications, systems and models that put our clients at the forefront of the machine learning space and give them a competitve edge over their rivals.
CTO as a Service
We offer all the benefits of a highly experienced CTO, without the equity erosion and challenges of finding a permanent executive. We can deliver the technology to realise your vision and even provide the team to execute and build out the product.
Our Partners
Nicholas Hughes
Nick has 16+ years of experience designing, developing and scaling software, and a decade of experience founding and leading technology companies. An AI expert, he has a patent in machine learning, was the CTO at Dolphin AI and has made AI and physics contributions to Unreal Engine 4, the technology behind Fortnite and many other popular video games. Other roles include: VP of Engineering at Fable Motion, a web-based motion graphics startup, Interim CTO and later VP of Engineering at Credijusto, a Latin American fintech. Nick also built the client-facing web stack, API layer, and UI for Matthews South, a capital markets focused fintech founded by Vijay Culas, the former Head of ECM at Goldman Sachs.
As a seasoned professional in the domains of both AI and enterprise scale software development, Nick is regularly sought out to lead the AI transformation of large technology companies.
Jared Friese
Jared has more than a decade of experience delivering great software in swift time under tight constraints. His talent as both a software developer and manager saw him quickly rise through the ranks at Pivotal Labs where he served as tech lead for multiple large enterprise projects. Jared is experienced in transforming software products and teams. Recently, as head of React/NodeJS engineering at a healthcare startup, he has been utilising his knowledge of the machine learning space to deliver impactful AI product offerings.
Jared’s bread-and-butter is installing and executing on a quality-first, testing-first, and product-first methodology. Prior to the pandemic, he was regularly invited to give technology talks in Los Angeles, CA and Melbourne, Australia. His favorite topics include effective testing of software systems and effective communication from a leadership position.
Sam Mokhtary
Sam has 15 years experience overseeing the development of software products in Asian markets. As a neuroscientist at RIKEN BSI Japan, Sam's early exposure to AI saw him use machine learning to decode stimuli from human brain activity. He later moved into the commercial sector, using machine learning techniques such as natural language processing to develop social media analyses for multinationals such as Nike and Electronic Arts. His passion for music and entertainment saw him oversee the development of Alive, a crowdfunding platform for live music, as well as the video Q&A platform asQme, which allowed fans to send and receive video messages from top-line celebrities including Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, Fatboy Slim, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Oasis.
Sam's scientific approach to machine learning combined with his real world experience leading commercial technology projects give him an acute understanding of where AI can deliver tangible results for clients.
Mary Baldwin Hughes
Mary is an outcome-oriented, entrepreneurial product leader, consultant, speaker, and workshop facilitator who has been de-risking success, and building healthy products, teams, and companies for nearly 20 years. She is specialized in translating vision into measurable impact, bringing cohesion into the product portfolio, and building systems and teams that function smoothly under pressure. She asks “Should we build this? Why?” and “What does this mean in terms of what we are leaving behind?”
Mary has been a founding member of multiple startups, led product teams through an IPO, built 6 product teams from the ground up in early venture, pre-ipo, & fortune 500 companies including Volkswagen Group, Pivotal, and Corelogic. As a facilitator and educator, she has led 70+ workshops on product strategy & development topics, including helping Eric Ries test out his material for his second book, The Leader's Guide, and developing the PM bootcamp courses for Melissa Perri, the author of The Build Trap.
Ryan Macinnes
Ryan is a product-focused full-stack programmer and CTO with more than 15 years of experience developing commercially successful software applications. Starting his career as a software engineer for companies such as Sony Pictures and GOOD, he went on to set up his own software consultancy and found several startups. Amongst these, he founded social media aggregator, Juicer, which as CTO he built, grew, operated and sold for mid 7-figures USD. Other notable companies Ryan has founded include Payote, Tweeker, Minotaur and Locent, for which he attended YCombinator and received over 1MM USD in funding.
Ryan's eye for design, technical skillset and first hand experience of developing software products in the face of a financial bottomline see him regularly sought out as an advisor to early-stage, high-growth companies. Recently, he has helped develop several proof of concept products that leverage the power of AI services such as GPT, HuggingFace, AWS an Google Cloud AI.
Case Studies
Bookreport: Modernizing Software Infrastructure with Micro Frontends
Pinecone Partners enables rapid feature development at Bookreport with custom micro frontend strategy
Juicer: Optimizing a SaaS Web Application for Enterprise Scale
Providing Juicer user's with a lightning fast experience despite extremely volatile loads
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