Aloha! I'm Dmitri Sunshine.
Most consultants leave a report. I stay for the repair.
I work across CIO, CTO, CISO, and COO responsibilities from strategy through implementation.
Growing Organizations (10 to 200 people).
You've outgrown duct-tape IT but aren't ready for a full executive technology team. I fill that gap.
Nonprofits and Mission-Driven Teams.
You need serious systems with a lean budget. I've operated exactly that way for 23 years.
Regulated and Data-Sensitive Organizations.
Your systems carry information that cannot be treated casually. I have spent 14 years accountable for that kind of data.
I also advise RIAs, estate attorneys, and foundations on cybersecurity and operational resilience through Solanasis .
Systems held together by luck.
Your tech stack works until it doesn't. I find the brittle parts before they break.
No one sees the full picture.
When IT, security, and operations live in silos, the gaps between them become expensive.
Untested disaster recovery.
Having backups is not the same as having recovery. I test it for real.
AI looking for a problem.
Some work needs AI. Some needs a deterministic automation or a cleaner process. I know the difference.
Sensitive data without clear ownership.
Access, migrations, backups, and recovery need the same discipline as the application itself.
The founder bottleneck.
Everything runs through you because no one else knows where the keys are. I fix that.
AI is one tool inside the operation. I use it where ambiguity justifies it and prefer deterministic automation where the rules are known.
Use the Simplest Tool That Works.
Known rules usually call for deterministic automation. Ambiguous work may justify AI. The system should earn its complexity.
Protect the Data.
Regulated, private, donor, and payment data need clear ownership, narrow access, controlled movement, and recovery that has been tested.
Govern AI in the Real Operation.
I put boundaries around data, permissions, traceability, quality checks, and the decisions that still require an accountable human.
Build Around the Work.
A responsible system fits the process people actually use, including ownership, handoffs, exceptions, and a safe way to stop when something drifts.
The goal is not more AI. The goal is an operation that works, stays secure, and can explain what happened.
Social workers spent more time on their mission and less fighting their software.
Aloha!
I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1984. My family left when I was seven, and we arrived in Atlanta with almost nothing but each other.
By high school I was teaching myself to code. It felt less like study than like finally getting hold of the toolkit I had been circling my whole life.
At 19 I stepped out of college to build full-time. The work I was already doing on my own had outpaced what the classroom had to offer, so I followed it.
That turned into fourteen years at InReach Solutions, an ERP SaaS platform for adoption agencies that I bootstrapped from zero to roughly 80 clients across the country.
Those systems carried medical information alongside adoption and foster-care records. Working in HIPAA-regulated environments made security part of the architecture, the data pipelines, and the way the company operated every day.
I ran it without outside capital. There was no board; every call had to pay for itself, which is by far the fastest way to learn what a dollar is actually worth.
It is also where I learned where brittle systems quietly accumulate risk debt, and how a few well-placed changes can cut through years of operational drag. Most of the time nobody even notices until the numbers start moving.
Today I run Solanasis, focused on technology and operations systems rescue for small and growing organizations.
I have actually run the company I am advising. For nearly two decades I have been the founder-operator responsible for the technology, the operating decisions, and the risk when something went wrong. That is what keeps me honest about the advice I give.
I live in Boulder with my two kids. When I am not working you will find me on a mountain bike trail, or out building something with my hands.
Notes on technology leadership, operational resilience, and the lessons I have picked up over 23 years of building and fixing systems.
One model can look brilliant right up until it quietly skips the plan. The better path is model councils, real harnesses, and verification that catches the hidden risk before it ships.
Most phishing emails that cause damage do not look suspicious. They come from real accounts, pass every filter check, and land in your inbox looking perfectly normal. Here is what to do about it.
I built two professional websites in a weekend without writing code. Here is every prompt you need to do the same, from zero to a live site on Cloudflare.
If your technology and operations no longer hold together, I can help you find the real problem and get the repair moving.
Or explore Solanasis services at solanasis.com