Payments
Architecture reviews, migrations, reliability work, and launch support for platforms moving money through banks, card networks, or proprietary rails.
Consulting / Systems / Software
Michael Trinque
I work on payments, applied cryptography, and regulated software.
I help founders, operating teams, and investors make technical decisions when the cost of being wrong is high.
Advisory when a sharp read is enough. Hands-on leadership when the thing needs to ship.
Focus
- Payments Architecture
- Applied Cryptography
- Regulated Software
- Security Review
- Program Leadership
- Technical Diligence
Cryptography
Protocol review, key management, threat modeling, and practical decisions for teams putting cryptography into production.
Leadership
Fractional technical leadership for executives who need clear readouts, roadmap triage, or someone accountable for a difficult launch.
Diligence
Fast, direct assessments for investors and operators evaluating systems where security, compliance, and delivery risk are tangled together.
Proof
Co-founded The Ordering.app and spent a decade as CTO, leading product and engineering through acquisition by Google.
Led the post-acquisition migration from AWS to Google's internal stack with new security, compliance, and reliability baselines.
Built and maintained PCI DSS programs and negotiated integrations with major POS providers.
Logos, my BSD-licensed open-source framework, is the systems engineering style I bring to client work.
Remote-first, aligned to US time zones, with on-site work when it adds value. International projects considered when the scope is a match.
Send a short note about what you are evaluating or building, including timeline and constraints.