ABOUT MITCH STOREY

Range built the judgment.

A senior engineer and CTO-level technical partner with more than two decades spent inside complex, consequential systems.

20+YEARS BUILDING
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

1:1DIRECT ACCESS TO
THE TECHNICAL LEAD

360°PRODUCT THROUGH
INFRASTRUCTURE

Mitch Storey leading a systems architecture discussion

THE CAREER

From signals intelligence to the product roadmap.

My career has moved through U.S. Air Force signals intelligence, bioinformatics research and high-performance computing, consumer mobile products, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, telephony, and hands-on CTO leadership.

I have written the code, designed the architecture, managed the infrastructure, responded to incidents, worked with researchers and operators, and translated business needs into systems that could survive production.

That range is the reason OppositeMind exists. The hardest problems rarely respect organizational boundaries. Solving them requires both depth and the ability to see how the pieces affect one another.

THE TRAJECTORY

Each discipline changed
how the next one was practiced.

01Signals intelligenceSystems thinking · operational consequence · adversarial perspective

02Engineering + softwareCode · architecture · integration · production delivery

03Bioinformatics + HPCData · parallel processing · scientific rigor · research

04Products + platformsMobile · SaaS · commerce · public-facing systems

05Infrastructure + securityLinux · networks · telephony · resilience · response

06CTO leadershipStrategy · teams · tradeoffs · accountable execution

WHY THE RANGE MATTERS

The difficult part is often
between disciplines.

A product decision can become a database problem. A deployment shortcut can become a security problem. An integration can change how an entire team works.

01 / UNDERSTAND

See the whole operation.

I start with the people using the system, the decisions they need to make, and what happens when something fails. That context gives the technical work a purpose and makes priorities easier to defend.

02 / CONNECT

Follow the dependencies.

Software, data, infrastructure, and security do not operate independently. Experience across those layers helps me ask better questions early, before a local improvement creates a problem somewhere else.

03 / DELIVER

Stay close to the implementation.

Architecture has to survive contact with the codebase, the team, and the budget. I work at that level, adjusting the plan as evidence replaces assumptions and keeping decisions connected to delivery.

EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICE

Where that perspective
has been put to work.

RESEARCH

Scientific questions. Computational constraints.

At TGen, bioinformatics and high-performance computing brought software engineering into research, including a contribution to published Alzheimer’s work.

TGen ↗PUBLIC SAFETY

Information people depend on.

Work on Watch Duty’s mobile applications and API connected the user experience to the systems supporting real-time wildfire information.

Watch Duty ↗COMMERCE

A product that keeps evolving.

Developing and modernizing Hungry Howie’s online ordering system meant working with a technology organization across years of changing needs.

Hungry Howie’s ↗

THE PERSON YOU WORK WITH

Direct conversation.
Hands-on responsibility.

Mitch Storey Founder, OppositeMind Technologies

OppositeMind is my independent engineering and technical leadership practice, based in Arizona. You work directly with me on the problem, the plan, and the decisions that shape the result.

I am comfortable moving between an executive conversation and a technical investigation. That can mean explaining a tradeoff to a business owner, reviewing an architecture with a team, or working through the implementation myself.

The goal is a working system and a clearer path forward. Sometimes that calls for a focused review. Sometimes it calls for sustained engineering or leadership. The engagement should fit the actual need.

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WORKING PRINCIPLES

Start with the operation.

Technology choices follow the business, the users, the constraints, and the consequences.

Keep judgment close.

The person who scopes the work should remain present for the architecture and the hard decisions.

Own production reality.

A system is not finished when the demo works. It is finished when the operation can depend on it.

USAF signals intelligence Published research contribution Full-stack + mobile engineering CTO-level leadership Infrastructure + cybersecurity Telephony + call centers

BRING THE HARD PROBLEM

Put that project back on the roadmap.

Tell me what needs to work, where you’re stuck, and what the system has to fit.

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