About
A short note from the founder.
Why this firm exists, how it works, and what to expect if you hire us.
I founded Cynosure Technologies in 2008. The premise was stubborn and, in retrospect, slightly naive: that enterprise IT didn't need to be as frustrating as my own consulting career had taught me it was. That a small firm of senior engineers, willing to charge a fair price and willing to stay through the awkward middle of a project, could outperform much larger firms on the work that actually mattered.
Seventeen years later, the firm is small on purpose. We employ a few dozen engineers, all W-2 to Cynosure, almost all based in the United States, most within a flight of Houston. We work mostly with hospital systems, research universities, energy operators, and state agencies. We run two halves of the same business: a consulting practice that delivers project work, and a staffing practice that places those same senior engineers on engagements led by your team.
What you should expect from us is what you'd expect from a good vendor your CTO has worked with for a decade. We say yes carefully. We say no when we should. The person you meet at the kickoff is the person on the project status call in month nine. If something is going wrong, you hear it from me before you have to ask.
If any of that sounds like the firm you've been looking for, find the right page for your situation and start a conversation.
— The founders, Cynosure Technologies
Our story
Cynosure was founded in Houston in 2008. Early years were mostly PeopleSoft and SQL work for the academic medical centers and large healthcare systems that anchored the Texas Medical Center down the road.
The firm grew by adding adjacent practices the existing clients asked for: identity and access management as the healthcare systems consolidated under stricter audit regimes; data engineering and analytics as Tableau and Power BI swept through finance functions; mobile development as clinical workflows moved off shared workstations and onto rounds-friendly devices.
Today our work spans all fifty states. The headquarters has not moved. Houston remains home for the talent we hire, the values we hold, and the accountability we owe to every client who trusts us with their stack.
Four things we believe
- Engineering is a craft.
- Software written carelessly will be maintained painfully for a decade. We design for the team that inherits our work.
- Ownership beats activity.
- Closing tickets isn't the goal. Eliminating the conditions that produced the ticket is.
- Trust is earned in writing.
- SLAs we can defend, pricing we can explain, contracts you don't need a lawyer to interpret.
- Bad news travels fast.
- Our project managers escalate before you have to ask. The most expensive surprise is the one nobody flagged in time.
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Leadership
A small founder-led team with deep enterprise tenure and a flat structure. You will not be passed between layers.
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