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Shane Pollard · building the tech under sports fintech
Chief Technology Officer in sports fintech — the engineering under payments, wallets, and the money movement that makes modern sports products work. A builder, not a buzzword.
Who Shane is
CTO · sports fintech
A sports-fintech CTO owns the part users never think about until it breaks: money in, money out, reconciled, compliant, fast, and safe. It is engineering under real-money pressure — the domain where getting the boring parts perfect is the entire job.
Where our lanes overlap
Two builders, different altitude
- Both build the layer nobody sees — Shane the fintech infrastructure, SideGuy the operator-tooling layer. Same respect for the plumbing.
- Own it, don't rent it — SideGuy's whole thesis is operators owning their tech; a CTO gets that in his bones.
- Open hand — rare to find another builder pointed at making hard tech feel simple for the person using it.
Shane, you build the real-money infrastructure that has to just work — the hardest, least-thanked engineering there is.
SideGuy builds the usability layer over the tools operators already have. Different altitude, same craft.
Coffee, or compare notes?
Neighbor to neighbor. No Calendly · no pitch.
Either way · open hand. Text PJ at 858-461-8054.
Find Shane publicly
Shane's work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Shane Pollard
- Company: Sports fintech · CTO · payments & engineering
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