Brandon Pav

About

Founder of Pavtek Consulting LLC who acts as a hands-on technology leader for startups, building MVPs and full-stack AI products, custom ERPs, integrations, and AI agent chat tools. Notably led a major turnaround at Dyknow (EdTech), cutting major cloud waste and moving the business from a $500k annual loss to double profitability within two years before a successful acquisition.

Key Strengths

• Turned around an EdTech company (Dyknow) from -$500k/year to double profitable in under 2 years; led to acquisition exit
• Identified and removed ~90% of bloated/unuseful cloud infrastructure spend; reduced burn by ~$150k the following year
• Builds and leads leveraged delivery teams via strategic near/off-shore partnerships to keep burn rate low while delivering on time/under budget
• Exec-level technology and operations assessment (roles, processes, throughput, bottlenecks) and decisive restructuring to improve efficiency
• Aligns product/tech execution tightly with leadership vision and go-to-market readiness

Reference Highlights

• rare combination of elite technical acumen and people skills
• exceptional problem-solving ability
• bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively
• empathetic and clear communicator
• able to lead teams and drive cross-functional success
• influences executives
• strong end-to-end ownership
• strategic thinker who can operate in ambiguity
• successfully led a business restructure into two divisions
• helped company meet and exceed financial goals and scale
• strong architecture and systems design judgment
• chooses practical, simple, reliable foundations
• balances speed and scalability well
• keeps teams focused on realistic deliverables
• prioritizes what matters most to the business
• delivers consistently without major surprises
• quickly addresses emerging issues and adapts rapidly
• high accountability; stands behind his work
• collaborative partner with product/business leadership
• uses data and customer feedback to pivot product direction
• improved engagement metrics by simplifying/deprioritizing low-use feature
• Incredible leadership
• High accountability
• Proactive and responsive to feedback
• Moves with speed
• Goes above and beyond (worked night and day)
• Strong execution and delivery reliability
• Provides clear timelines
• Consistently meets or exceeds commitments
• Drives outcomes (enabled new pilot users)
• Effective at securing partnerships to unblock product needs

Experience

Education

Awards

• Phi Kappa Phi (top 10% of all college Seniors)
• Tau Beta Pi invitation (top 20% -- Engineering Honors Society)
• Outstanding Student Honor Society, 2003
• Honors College Graduate, University of South Florida
• Magna Cum Laude - University of South Florida (B.S. Computer Science)
• Cum Laude - University of South Florida (B.S. Computer Engineering)

Skills

Languages

Certifications

Memberships

• Phi Kappa Phi
• Tau Beta Pi