Will Sahatdjian
Andalusia,,Spain
Summary
CTO & Repeat Founder | Scaled Taxfyle 0 → $20 M ARR
Built 100-person hybrid org across 4 continents, delivered 99.99 % uptime & SOC 2/ISO 27001 compliance with zero P1 breaches.
Closed $5 M+ enterprise deals; Awards from Apple; Inc 500 Ranked #74
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
COO
Solarislate
Miami, FL
10.2024 - 06.2025
- Spearheaded Crowdfunding Campaign
- Designed Branding, Technical Manuals, Sales Materials, Website
- Created 3D Renders and AI Product Visualizations
- Led Permitting Interviews with Structural Engineers at City of Anaheim, CA
Co-Founder / CTO
Taxfyle
Miami, FL
08.2015 - 03.2024
- Scaled Up Engineering & Design Teams (Hybrid Local / Distributed) from $0-20M ARR
- Designed Pitch Materials for Fundraising and 7-Figure Enterprise SaaS Deals
- Designed & Built Mobile Apps, APIs, ETL and Analytics
- Awards Include Apple App of the Day, Deloitte Fast 500, Inc 500 #74
- 90% of Recruiting Managed In-House
- Oversaw Big 4 Security Audits, ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II Certifications, No P1 Breach In 9 Years
- Speaking Engagements Including Google Cloud, Microsoft, Fuel Venture Capital Investor Day
- GCP/GKE, Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker, Microservices, Node.js, Typescript, React, React Native, Xamarin, Flutter, Postgres + pgvector, ElasticSearch, NoSQL DBs, In-House OCR, Several Local & Managed LLMs, Notion, Slack, JIRA
- Ran Marketing In Addition to Engineering & Design For Last 2 Years
- Began Major AI Initiative Push in 2022, Resulting in TXF Intelligence
Co-Founder / CTO
Kindwave
Miami, FL
04.2014 - 07.2015
- Patented (US 2016/0078525A1) Group Buying System
- Designed & Built Product Pricing & Discovery Engine
- Realtime Aggregation Across Amazon, Google Products, Affiliate Feeds, Social
- Near-C10K Stability Handling Millions of Queries
- Node, JavaScript, Docker, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, Nginx, Ansible, React
Lead Software Engineer
HealthSun Health Plans
Miami, FL
01.2008 - 02.2014
- Designed & Built HIPAA Compliant Platform
- Native eRx App for 1st-Gen iPads Processing 1M Scripts/Year
- Pharmacy Delivery & Tracking System Handling 700,000 Packages/Year
- Medical Claims Payout System
- Multivariate Route Optimization for Patient Transport
- Cross-Organization ETL Pipelines (Claims, Medical Centers, Pharmacy)
- C#, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Objective-C, Xamarin
- Passed Numerous Certifications and Audits, Including SureScripts and HIPAA
- Acquired by Anthem for Rumored $1B in 2017
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
Florida International University
Miami, FLSkills
- Executive leadership
- Systems thinker
- Problem solving
- Software development
- Cloud computing
- Machine learning
- Data analysis
- Project management
- UI/UX design
- Technical documentation
- Cross-functional team coordination
- Strategic partnerships
- Contract negotiation
- Business analysis
- Marketing expertise
Timeline
COO
Solarislate
10.2024 - 06.2025
Co-Founder / CTO
Taxfyle
08.2015 - 03.2024
Co-Founder / CTO
Kindwave
04.2014 - 07.2015
Lead Software Engineer
HealthSun Health Plans
01.2008 - 02.2014
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
Florida International University