Strategic, Tenacious Technology Leader
Colton brings a founder’s urgency, rare cross-functional fluency, and a mentor’s heart to every engineering organization he leads.
Colton currently serves as VP of Engineering at Banjo Health. Prior to Banjo, Colton co-founded and served as CTO of Transect for four years before serving as Director of Engineering at Circulo Health.
What Colton Does
A consistent track record across disciplines.
From founding a startup to leading enterprise engineering.
Engineering Org Leadership
Building and scaling engineering teams, maturing SDLC processes, and elevating organizational capabilities from the ground up.
Startup Founding & Scaling
Co-founded and served as CTO of a venture-backed SaaS company—from architecture and team building to product roadmap and customer delivery.
Executive Stakeholder Engagement
Trusted technical voice in high-stakes conversations with C-suite leaders, boards, and enterprise client stakeholders.
Technology Architecture
Designing resilient, cloud-native systems across diverse domains—microservices, data platforms, geospatial applications, and modern AI-integrated architectures.
Team Development & Mentorship
Growing engineers into leaders through real autonomy, candid coaching, and genuine investment in each person's growth.
Cross-Functional Leadership
A trusted contributor across product, business, legal, data science, and customer success—bringing technical clarity and business judgment to every table.
Where Colton Goes Deep
Across the stack, across regulated industries.
Two decades across the database, the backend, and the modern web—most of it in regulated environments.
Technology
- ▸Two decades of relational database engineering—schema architecture, query optimization, and tens of thousands of lines of production stored procedures, functions, and triggers (primarily SQL Server)
- ▸Full-stack TypeScript at production scale—Node.js APIs and business logic on the server; React applications (Next.js among them) on the client
- ▸Cloud-native architecture—microservices and containerized services on Azure today; GCP and AWS in prior chapters
- ▸Geospatial systems and analytical tooling—open-source and proprietary solutions to complex geospatial analysis challenges, built ground-up at Transect
- ▸Machine learning and GenAI integration—clinical decision support and AI-integrated product surfaces in production
Domains
- ▸Healthcare SaaS—prior authorization, ePA systems, and GenAI-powered clinical decision support; payer and PBM workflows at Banjo, provider-side products at Circulo
- ▸Regulated environments—HIPAA-bound healthcare data and enterprise compliance posture for client procurement
- ▸Regulatory data and geospatial systems—land use, environmental, and proprietary regulatory tooling built ground-up at Transect
- ▸Enterprise client implementations with health plans and PBMs—multi-client launch programs and complex ePA and clinical decision support integrations
In Their Own Words
The people Colton has worked with, in their voice.
Find these recommendations and more on Colton’s LinkedIn profile.
“Colton defines leading from the front. He's truly the gold standard of a good leader. He's a natural mentor, not only to his own team but to everyone across the organization—this sets him apart in all the best ways.”
“Colton consistently embodied patience, a collaborative spirit, excellent leadership and communication, and a support-first approach to management that everyone greatly appreciated. He always strived to enable engineers to do their best work. The quality of his leadership across the board was immaculate.”
“Colton is a deft hands-on engineering manager who strives to ensure the people on his team have everything they need to succeed. He's fearless when it comes to striving to understand the problem at hand. I'd work with him again in a heartbeat!”
“Kind, compassionate, driven, competitive, moral compass. He is not a ticket grabber but a bonafide partner. While in the trenches of shipping multiple experiences, he was always composed, helpful and humble. I would always work with Colton.”
Let’s talk
The best conversations come from real problems.
Whether you’re scaling an engineering team, navigating a high-stakes technical decision, or thinking through what your engineering organization needs next—I’d genuinely enjoy the conversation.
Schedule a ConversationBeyond the work
Family, community, and the small things that keep the rest in perspective.
Colton’s heart is full when he spends time with Ally and their four children—Lillian (11), Ruth (9), Lowell (7) and John (5).
The kids love exploring the outdoors and learning about the world around them! Lilly is the artist; Ruth is the free spirit; Lowell is the cowboy; and John is probably gonna give all of them a run for their money!
Photo: Ally and kiddos rest for a photo at Mount Rushmore on our Summer 2025 trip across four states.
Colton has volunteered thousands of hours in service to numerous great causes over the past decade.
Photo: Colton Brugger, during his tenure as Event Chair, speaking during the opening ceremonies of the Relay For Life of La Grange, benefiting the American Cancer Society!
Colton has deejayed since his teens and has provided sound for hundreds of weddings, private parties, and charitable events.
In addition to deejay services, Colton and his family can provide equipment and production support for live bands as well as karaoke entertainment. If you’re looking for a deejay in Central Texas, contact Colton today.