I've been building systems for businesses since I was nineteen.
I started in 2003 building web-based ordering and field-service scheduling for local businesses, CRM before I knew to call it that. My first paying clients were Tail Bangers and a local home inspection company, and both still call me.
Twenty-some years later, I'm a senior technical architect at a Salesforce consultancy serving federal programs. KatulkaDesign is where I keep building for the businesses that trusted me first: Salesforce, retail EDI, commerce, and AI automation.
What I do
- Salesforce architecture
- Multi-org design, data models, security, and integrations, built so a small team can run them. Hands-on, from Apex to the release pipeline.
- Retail EDI and supply chain
- Trading-partner onboarding on SPS Commerce, from purchase order to ship notice to invoice. One pipeline I built serves more than 2,300 retail locations at better than 99% transmission success.
- Commerce and order flow
- BigCommerce builds, B2B portals, and the plumbing that carries an order from cart to warehouse to accounting.
- AI and automation
- Intake that reads forms, emails, and documents, and automation that carries the repeatable work so people don't have to.
- Data and integration
- ETL and APIs between systems that were never meant to talk, with an audit trail for every step.
That's the short list. If it moves data, takes an order, or keeps a business running, I can probably build it.
Since 2003
- 2003
First paid builds, at nineteen: online ordering and field-service scheduling.
- 2009
First Salesforce work. Nine certifications since.
- 2014
Joined CRM Science as its sixth hire and helped grow it to thirty people. Six Dreamforce talks, AppExchange packages, and Summit Partner status along the way.
- 2024
Moved into federal Salesforce work. Now a senior technical architect on a large multi-team program.
- Today
Through KatulkaDesign, orders and sales data flowing to thousands of grocery store locations and to Chewy, on Salesforce, SPS Commerce, and BigCommerce.
In their words
“He takes the time to understand your business and achieves results sometimes beyond my own expectations.” Lisa St. Clair, President and CEO, Tail Bangers
“One of the most persevering, poised and ingenious Salesforce professionals I have ever worked with.” Frank Cabreja, senior architect and president
Outside the work
I'm married with three boys, and most weekends you'll find us at a baseball field or a swim meet. I love staying healthy and getting outside: CrossFit, time in nature, and ten years of riding Bike MS.
Most of what I know about building things that last, I learned at home.
How I work
Fractional and senior. A monthly retainer or a metered engagement, one architect from the first diagram to production, and a strong bias toward systems a small team can actually run.
I'm local to West Chester, and you'll usually find me at Mid-Atlantic Dreamin' in Philadelphia each spring.
Have something that needs to work by next quarter? Email me.