About me

Developer and architect with over 30 years of experience across products, teams, and sectors.

Dan Ducat has worked with large and small organizations in both for-profit and non-profit settings, moving fluidly between software development, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, and technical leadership. The throughline is a commitment to systems that are useful, maintainable, and thoughtfully built.

Current focus

Leaning into agentic AI driven development to shorten delivery cycles, lower costs, and create more room for higher-value architectural, governance, and product decisions.

Range

From business strategy to product delivery

Strategic thinking Connect organizational goals, user needs, and delivery decisions so the work stays useful and outcome-oriented.
Pragmatic design Design software foundations that can support change without becoming fragile.
Priority-driven delivery Break work into useful increments so teams can learn, adjust, and deliver value sooner.
Cross-sector perspective Apply lessons learned from both commercial and mission-driven organizations.

At a glance

Enterprise breadth, product depth

Experience: 30+ years
Sectors: Fintech, nonprofit, consulting, and independent product work
Strengths: Architecture, solution design, development, and technical leadership
Focus: AI assisted delivery with practical architecture oversight
Mode: Strategy, design, implementation, and governance
Work: Enterprise platforms, custom applications, and independent products

Key employment

Enterprise and mission-driven work

FIS Currently serving as Systems Architect Principal after working as a Digital Solutions Architect at a global fintech organization.
Compassion International Built and led enterprise and platform architecture practices, created roadmaps, launched architecture governance, and rolled out ServiceNow-based application portfolio management.
Charles Schwab Led portfolio architecture across Treasury and Securities Lending, aligning business capabilities, application strategy, integration patterns, and technology roadmaps.
National 4-H Council Served as an enterprise architect, designing solutions to support the organization's mission and operations.

Independent work

Consulting and Personal Projects

Ducat Consulting LLC Provided independent consulting, including architecture and development, for many years to small and large organizations across multiple sectors.
Ezer Solutions Serves as an independent product and consulting vehicle for custom applications, Apple-platform apps, and tailored vendor-platform configuration.
Fweep Building a modern desktop experience for classic interactive fiction, with library management, iCloud synchronization, automatic mapping, and custom themes.
Gnusto Shaping an audiobook manager and player around chapter-aware playback, progress tracking, and personal library workflows.
Wyrth Creating a privacy-first net worth tracker for iOS focused on keeping financial data under the user's control.

What colleagues say

Repeated themes in recommendations are strategy, clarity, collaboration, and trust.

Colleagues consistently describe Dan as a strategic thinker who can go deep technically, communicate clearly across levels, improve architecture process, mentor others, and deliver reliably. The recurring pattern is not just technical strength, but practical leadership and the ability to move complex work forward with clarity and collaboration.

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