Elliott Anderson

Technology executive, product architect, and engineering leader with a record of building highly technical organizations and category-defining software platforms. Served as CTO and President of ShadowDragon during growth from approximately $1M to $20M in annual revenue and nearly 100 employees. Engineer by training who remains deeply technical while leading strategy, product, engineering, security, operations, and organizational growth.

Background spans AI, cybersecurity, cloud and distributed systems, large-scale data platforms, enterprise SaaS, and mission-critical government and enterprise deployments.

Fractional Chief Technology Officer at Mercury Technology Solutions (2025-01 – Present)

• Advise ownership across multiple businesses on high-impact technology, product, and operational challenges spanning software architecture, AI adoption, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, vendor decisions, and long-term technology strategy.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for live auction and e-commerce operations, including live bidding, streaming, payment processing, third-party integrations, bidder experience, and reliable delivery of high-profile events.

Chief Technology Officer and President at ShadowDragon (2018-01 – 2026-01)

• Led technology strategy, engineering, product, and operations through sustained growth from approximately $1M to $20M in annual revenue, scaling the organization to nearly 100 employees.
• Architected and led development of Horizon, a category-defining OSINT platform combining large-scale data ingestion, identity resolution, graph analytics, enrichment, APIs, automation, and AI-assisted capabilities for government and enterprise customers.
• Built and developed an exceptionally technical engineering organization while remaining hands-on with architecture, code, reverse engineering, debugging, performance, production incidents, and difficult problems where conventional approaches failed.
• Established stronger engineering, testing, observability, security, compliance, and operational practices for a mission-critical platform dependent on thousands of constantly changing external systems and billions of records.
• Worked directly with customers, executives, partners, and technical teams to translate emerging problems into commercially successful product capabilities, helping establish new markets and maintain a significant technical advantage.
• Led the technology side of the company through acquisition due diligence, including compliance readiness, architecture and systems documentation, technical diligence requests, and continued operation throughout the transaction.

Senior Systems Engineer at Grande Communications (2012-10 – 2018-01)

• Designed and developed enterprise provisioning, billing, customer self-service, and operational systems supporting residential and business broadband customers.
• Helped transform equipment provisioning from a heavily manual process into an extensible automation platform capable of provisioning numerous device types and adapting as network technologies evolved.
• Built highly reliable systems and integrations across Java,.NET, SQL, APIs, and web services; portions of the platform have reportedly survived multiple acquisitions and remain operational years later.

Engineering and Quality Leadership Roles at Walmart (1998-09 – 2012-10)

• Progressed through increasingly senior software engineering and quality leadership roles supporting enterprise finance, accounts receivable, benefits, training, and other high-volume systems within the world's largest retailer.
• Developed and supported enterprise financial systems using Java, C#, VB.NET,.NET, SQL Server, web services, and enterprise integration technologies while leading quality engineering, load testing, automated testing, release readiness, and PCI-related initiatives.

Trustee at Anderson Foundation (2012-01 – Present)

• Trustee of a private charitable foundation with approximately $100M in assets, providing fiduciary oversight, grant and financial review, audit and regulatory review, strategic planning, site visits, and evaluation of nonprofit leadership, governance, and community impact.

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Information Systems – Texas State University (2004)