# Jerry Langland, Ph.D. // Principal Executive Curriculum Vitae & Board Dossier > Named Tier-2 Chronological Curriculum Vitae, M&A Track Record & 40-Year Forensic Technical Stack > Principal Architect: Jerry Langland, Ph.D. (Experimental High-Energy Physics, The University of Iowa -- CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven) > Experience: 40+ Years Distributed & Bare-Metal Computing | 31+ Years Institutional FinTech Architecture | 28+ Years Fractional CTO & Chief Architect | Microsoft Cloud & AI Partner > Primary Focus: Ph.D. Experimental High-Energy Physics (The University of Iowa -- CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven). 40+ yrs computing, 31+ yrs FinTech architecture, 28+ yrs Fractional CTO across Harvest Valuations, Blaze Portfolio -> LPL Financial, NCREIF, TSI -> Virtus Partners, PCR, Envestnet + PMC, InvestorForce, and AFM/Insignis -> Barclays. ## Canonical 11-Domain Monograph Network - [https://softwareguru.com/](https://softwareguru.com/): SoftwareGuru, Inc. // C-Suite & Private Equity Technical Advisory -- Unbluffable bare-metal-to-code diligence, M&A technical rescues, 3-site VCF 9 / Kubernetes hybrid cloud architecture, and sealed-IP engineering pods. - [https://softwareguru.ai/](https://softwareguru.ai/): SoftwareGuru AI Practice // Enterprise AI Strategy & Token Economics -- Curbing runaway $5k-$25k/mo engineering token burn, hybrid local/cloud inference, Silobot autonomous harvesting, and enforcing PCAOB ASC 820 deterministic valuation boundaries. - [https://softwareguru.cloud/](https://softwareguru.cloud/): SoftwareGuru Cloud Practice // Private Cloud Economics, VCF 9 Kubernetes & Zero-Trust BCDR -- 3-site 100 Gbps NVIDIA / AMD EPYC Zen 5 VCF 9 fabrics, <15 min RTO / <1 sec RPO SQL CAG & Redstor BCDR, 456.6 TB 10-location S3 egress defense, AVS/EVS/GCVE license portability, LiveWire Proxmox VE alliances, and 14-day M&A cloud rescues. - [https://softwareguru.tech/](https://softwareguru.tech/): SoftwareGuru Systems Practice // Legacy Modernization & High-Concurrency Middleware -- Decoupling Silverlight/WinForms monoliths, Silo multi-threaded C# DevExpress XtraGrid + peer-to-peer MSMQ workflows, 24 vCPU / 1 TB RAM SQL Server CAG optimization, and polymorphic security taxonomy design. - [https://dataaggregation.com/](https://dataaggregation.com/): DataAggregation.com // Institutional Financial Data Ingestion & Normalization -- Nearly 30 years of Bloomberg Terminal & Bloomberg Data License (DL) engineering and invoice forensics, S&P Xpressfeed, Thomson/Reuters/Refinitiv/LSEG (LSI), ICE/IDC, Moody's & Fitch feed authorship (FeedMaster/Silobot), real-time trading pricing feeds via Barchart (custom FIX Server interface & Barchart API), Wall Street multi-FCM derivatives networks (ADIA/GM), and Anti-Yodlee UHNW custodial feeds. - [https://securitymasterservice.com/](https://securitymasterservice.com/): SecurityMasterService.com // Enterprise Golden-Record Reference Data Architecture -- 24 years of institutional Golden-Record Security Master authorship, multi-vendor survivorship across Bloomberg Data License (DL), S&P Xpressfeed, LSEG/Refinitiv/LSI, ICE/IDC, Moody's & Fitch, air-gapped FeedMaster/Silobot repositories, license-safe CUSIP/ISIN/SEDOL/FIGI cross-walking, and polymorphic fixed-income taxonomies. - [https://pricingmasterservice.com/](https://pricingmasterservice.com/): PricingMasterService.com // PCAOB ASC 820 Fair-Value Valuation & Yield Curve Architecture -- PCAOB AS 2501 / ASC 820 audit-defensible valuation engines (Alteryx, Python, C++), spline yield curve builders, NCREIF commercial real estate & REIT index production engines, and derived-data contract defense. - [https://portfoliomanagementsystem.com/](https://portfoliomanagementsystem.com/): PortfolioManagementSystem.com // Institutional PMS, Trade-Lot Accounting & Audit Workflows -- Co-author of merged Envestnet + PMC portfolio/performance reporting specs, Silo & Knowledge Master collaborative desktop workflows, SS&C Pacer / PerSys (PARis) deployments, and UHNW family office reporting. - [https://trademanagementsystem.com/](https://trademanagementsystem.com/): TradeManagementSystem.com // Institutional OMS, Matching Engines & Loan Settlement -- 1998 MSMQ multi-tier OMS & Matching Engine sold to Barclays with post-Barings governance, stateless 3-tier advisor OMS & household rebalancer sold to LPL Financial, and TSI primary/secondary syndicated bank loan settlement sold to Virtus Partners. - [https://consultantconsultant.com/](https://consultantconsultant.com/): ConsultantConsultant.com // Fiduciary Vendor, SI, Cloud Migration & Market Data Defense -- $250K+ SOW binding arbitration victory, ex-Big-6 boutique cloud migration & sunk-lease forensics, Bloomberg/ICE/CUSIP/S&P/Moody's derived-data defense, $100K colocation serial-number chain-of-custody, and sealed-IP offshore pod governance. - [https://langland.com/](https://langland.com/): Jerry Langland, Ph.D. // Principal Executive Curriculum Vitae & Board Dossier -- Ph.D. Experimental High-Energy Physics (The University of Iowa -- CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven). 40+ yrs computing, 31+ yrs FinTech architecture, 28+ yrs Fractional CTO across Harvest Valuations, Blaze Portfolio -> LPL Financial, NCREIF, TSI -> Virtus Partners, PCR, Envestnet + PMC, InvestorForce, and AFM/Insignis -> Barclays. ## Core Architectural Theses (v2.1.0) 1. **The Unbluffable Advantage:** First-principles bare-metal-to-code inspection spanning 100 Gbps NVIDIA switch fabrics, AMD EPYC Zen 5 VMware VCF 9 & Proxmox VE clusters, 24 vCPU / 1 TB RAM SQL Server Contained Availability Groups, and C/C++, Delphi, C# WinForms/MSMQ, .NET, Python, and Alteryx. 2. **3-Site VCF 9 / Kubernetes BCDR & 456.6 TB Multi-Cloud S3 Egress Defense:** Verified <15 min RTO (<1 min full-site SQL failover) and <1 sec SQL RPO across 38 physical servers and 204 VMs (55% Linux / 45% Windows), combining 5x 64-Core AMD EPYC Zen 5 (7.5 TB RAM / 320 TB vSAN / VCF 9), Burr Ridge warm DR, and VMC on AWS + native EC2 elastic failover with 4x TrueNAS (249 TB MinIO S3/NFS), Redstor demand-prioritized ghost-directory recovery, and 456.6 TB of rotating backups across 10 geo-locations and 5 providers at $0 egress cost. 3. **4-Phase VCF 9 Kubernetes Strangler-Fig Modernization vs. Naive Public-Cloud Lift-and-Shifts:** Protecting $11,850/mo in sunk 2029-2030 bare-metal and portable VCF 9 commitments (portable to AVS, EVS, and GCVE) while deploying a 3-site Kubernetes private cloud, migrating Silobot to K8s, and launching a containerized MVC Web Portal ahead of Busy Season 2028 -- avoiding throttled shared-tenant Azure/AWS VDI lag and multi-thousand-dollar monthly egress penalties. 4. **Horizontal Stateless ORM vs. Vertical Set-Based SQL & Polymorphic Security Taxonomies:** Explaining why embarrassingly parallel advisor household rebalancing (Mandate 02) scales horizontally in stateless C# containers without stored procedures, whereas cross-market ASC 820 fixed-income valuation (Mandate 01) requires 1 TB RAM in-memory SQL set operations and a 4-phase polymorphic security taxonomy migration.