Patrick Colm Audley

Founder & Principal Management Consultant · Management Consulting · Fractional CTO

High-end IT and management consulting for the Vancouver and Alberta startup communities. Domain expertise across high-performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, blockchain, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, and cryptology.

• CTO-at-large engagements: high-level management, executive oversight, hands-on execution.
• Solution architecture for complex technical problems — sparse-resource design and future-proofing.
• Cloud navigation: clusters, grids, lambdas, microservices; devops automation across providers.
• Startup process and execution from idea through early-stage funding.

President, COO & CFO · Fintech · regulated capital markets · tokenisation

FinTech firm developing a compliant blockchain platform for tokenisation of Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, and other alternative assets. Asset Backed Tokens™ enable retail access to traditionally institutional markets.

• Operated a Canadian reporting issuer for several years; certified financial filings as CFO.
• Bridged regulated capital markets with the wild west of cryptocurrency.
• Performed deal due diligence and led legal vetting.
• Authored Solidity contracts and worked across multi-blockchain solutions.

CTO · Geospatial intelligence · satellite imagery analysis

Global-scale, high-throughput, real-time geospatial analysis and event-correlation systems — fusing public satellite feeds (GOES-R, MODIS, VIIRS, Himawari) with statistical and ML detection.

• Built a worldwide early wildfire-detection pipeline with NRT analysis of heterogeneous satellite feeds.
• Delivered data to multiple governments and government agencies plus commercial customers.
• Operated a 30 TB PostgreSQL / PostGIS data store and routinely tuned heavy spatial queries.
• Collaborated with university research clusters on LiDAR integration and forest-composition analysis.

CTO · Social marketing · brand engagement platforms

Built social-promotion platforms with a team of social-marketing experts; instrumented and shaped brand engagement at scale.

• Ran the dev teams over several product iterations: hiring, team-building, training, direction.
• Set the broad technical direction of Strutta and its fleet of related companies.
• Operated as senior management inside a public-company structure.

Managing Director, Technology · Cloud platforms · public-market incubator

Owned the technical landscape across the Mobio / LX Ventures portfolio: acquisition due diligence, budget planning, cloud infrastructure, hiring, team management.

Mobio was acquired by LX Ventures, which subsequently rebranded back to Mobio.

• Built a large-scale cloud stack supporting an Alexa top-5000 site (2014).
• Led multi-platform deploys across AWS, GCE, and Heroku.
• DBA of last resort for the portfolio — fixing the evil problems no one else would.
• Executive-team duties for a public-market incubator.

Founder & CTO · Cognitive biometrics · adaptive authentication

Founded Cogneto in February 2006; raised £1.2 million; assembled a world-class engineering team and built a tightly-coupled user-centric / high-security software programme.

• Contributed to a rich patent portfolio spanning over twelve patents.
• Drove the meshing of user-centric design with adversary-aware security engineering.
• Touched almost every facet of building a first-rate startup — funding, hiring, IP, GTM.

High-Performance Computing Manager · Computational biology · academic HPC

Specified, provisioned, and operated research-grade computing for the School of Life Sciences.

• 20 TB IBM-based SAN with Tivoli Storage Manager — 2 Gbps pure NFS.
• New Cisco-based network backbone with NAT and intrusion detection.
• 100-processor research cluster on custom PXE / imaging, Sun Grid Engine, and a bespoke deployment package.
• Self-discovering monitoring tools that mapped switch topology and surfaced problem areas as the network grew.

Sr. Ecommerce Architect — PKI & Cryptography · Competitive Local Telco · founding-team security

Founding-team security and PKI architect for a national CLEC. Designed and supervised construction of two high-security PKI vaults and the surrounding infrastructure.

• Coordinated a national audit of GT's networks: 2000+ systems, 1000+ networks, 3 autonomous routing domains, 16 cities.
• Key member of GT's Computer Security Incident Response Team; led several data-forensic investigations.
• Designed PKI-based applications in Perl, C, C++, and PHP — including the Realtorlink Hybrid Authentication system and Secure Private Internet Messaging (SPIM).
• Provided sales-support for PKI and security products.