Andy Hayes

Resume

Twenty years of engineering, IT leadership, and the thread that connects them.

Engineering & Systems Leadership (2009 – Present)

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

Focus Labs LLC
Sep 2025 – Present · Lees Summit, MO

Building and shipping production multi-tenant SaaS platforms, custom tools, and AI integrations.

  • Built and shipped production multi-tenant SaaS products (ScrapSync, ServiceSnapp, SignFlow, FocusOps) from initial scoping through production deployment.
  • Designed real-time AI agents (OpenClaw framework), web automation tools, and multi-tenant row-level security architectures.
  • Collaborate alongside a contract infrastructure engineer: we design the infrastructure together, he builds and owns that layer, while I build and own the application layer.

VP of IT & Systems

The Premiere Group
Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · Remote · PE-backed family office

Sole IT executive across a $100M+ portfolio of 12 companies.

  • Built the integration layer connecting 30+ SaaS platforms across 12 portfolio companies.
  • Led overall ERP strategy and handled the technical side of 5 M&A technology integrations with zero business disruption.
  • Managed cybersecurity posture, vendor governance, and ~$300K in annual software/SaaS spend across all business units.

Owner & Principal Consultant / Fractional CTO

Boundless IT Systems
Jul 2017 – 2023 · Kansas City Metro

IT consulting and custom development for clients in legal, healthcare, field service, and marine sectors.

  • Served as fractional CTO for high-value clients, delivering strategic IT management, cloud migrations, cybersecurity incident response, and M&A technology integrations.
  • Built custom operations platforms for marine-sector clients (Farrell Brothers Marine Construction, dive recovery operations) covering job reporting, equipment repair tracking, and project management.
  • Revamped complex, undocumented IT infrastructures for multi-site businesses, deploying modern server, firewall, VoIP, and wireless networks to minimize downtime during relocations and expansions.
  • Managed full business operations, client engagements, vendor relationships, and 24/7 infrastructure support.

Platform Developer & Director of IT

Krystal Klean (acquired by Kept Companies)
Jan 2009 – Jul 2017 employee · contract through 2023 · Kansas City, MO

Full IT leadership through 8x revenue growth ($2M → $16M) and 14 years of custom platform development.

  • Built an ERP-level field service management platform from scratch in Zoho Creator (Deluge), scaling to 130+ users and 20–40 field crews at 99% uptime.
  • Engineered an automated commission payroll system that pulled completed jobs from the ServiceFusion API, reconciled them against crew daily reports, and calculated 500–1,000 commission lines per run — saving 10–20 hours per biweekly payroll cycle (still in production use today).
  • Handled the technical side of ~15 acquisitions and mergers across the Krystal/Kept era, ensuring full data continuity with zero business disruption.
  • Integrated ServiceFusion, ClickSend, Twilio, Zapier, and Make.com via REST APIs and webhooks, eliminating 7 hours of manual admin per billing cycle.

Earlier Experience (2005 – 2008)

Sales & Project Manager

Precision Construction
Jun 2006 – Dec 2008 · Kansas City, MO

Commercial project management and client delivery.

  • Managed multiple concurrent six-figure commercial roofing and construction projects, overseeing up to four crews through full sales and delivery cycles.
  • Handled end-to-end project coordination: quoting, materials procurement, crew scheduling, client handoffs, and collections.

Senior IT Technician

The E3 Group
2005 – 2006 · Kansas City Metro

High-security enterprise infrastructure support.

  • Provided IT support and infrastructure management in high-security environments, including a nuclear power plant during a critical steam refit project.
  • Maintained 24/7 system reliability and strict regulatory compliance across complex enterprise client environments.

Skills & Tooling

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Deluge, HTML/CSS
Front end
React, Next.js, Astro, offline-first PWAs (IndexedDB/Dexie), browser extensions, accessible semantic HTML
Back end & data
Node.js, Express, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, multi-tenant RLS
AI
Claude, OpenAI, Gemini APIs, provider routing with failover, LLM decisioning, MCP tool servers, neural TTS
Payments & billing
Stripe Checkout, Customer Portal, webhooks with signature verification, subscription and freemium models
Integrations & APIs
Zoho (Sign, Creator, Books, CRM — multi-region OAuth), ServiceFusion, Twilio, Resend, EasyPost, Airbyte, Zapier, Make.com
Infrastructure
Vercel, Cloudflare (Workers, R2, email routing), Netlify, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, live schema migrations
Security
Server-side OAuth, SSRF prevention, signed webhooks, row-level security, PII-safe error logging
Practice
Vitest, Jest, Playwright, TDD, spec-driven development, multi-persona adversarial QA