Preface
Consulting practice led by Michael Trinque. I help founders, operating teams, and investors make confident decisions about payments infrastructure, compliance-heavy launches, and security-sensitive systems.
Advisory Focus
Payments Architecture: Architecture reviews, migrations, and reliability work for platforms handling live settlement across banks, card networks, or proprietary rails.
Applied Cryptography: Secure protocol design, key management planning, and threat modeling for teams shipping cryptography in production.
Product & Program Leadership: Fractional support for executives who need clear technical readouts, diligence, or roadmap triage anchored in real-world delivery.
Engagement
Strategic Counsel: Advisory retainers, diligence, and roadmap supervision for leaders who need a senior technical partner on payments, security, or crypto-adjacent work.
Transformation Programs: Cross-functional projects such as migrations, compliance builds, or modernizations, with me running the program and assembling the right specialists.
Launch Leadership: Hands-on architecture and early product builds when shipping new systems benefits from an operator who can pair technical execution with commercial context.
Proof of Work
Decade as CTO: Co-founded The Ordering.app, led product and engineering, and took the company through acquisition by Google.
Google Integration: Led the post-acquisition migration from AWS to Google’s internal stack with new security, compliance, and reliability baselines.
Compliance Stewardship: Built and maintained full PCI DSS programs and negotiated partnerships with leading POS providers.
Contact
Email a short summary of what you are evaluating or building, and include any timelines or constraints. I respond directly and outline next steps.