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Twenty-four years of figuring it out.

TecHalo wasn't founded on a pitch deck. It's the brand on top of a career spent building software the hard way — starting with a kid, a forum post, and a game server that shouldn't have worked.

The story

From port forwarding to platform.

Age 13 · First lines

HTML in a bedroom

It started the way it starts for a lot of us: hand-written HTML pages, view-source as a textbook, and the small miracle of a browser doing what you told it to.

The game server years

A forum post, a friend, and months of stubbornness

Someone posted the source code for a game we played as kids. A friend and I spent months making it actually run — Java, database wiring, and a lot of trial and error. We got it live on my home computer, set up port forwarding through the router, and handed out a .jar client so people could connect and play on our server. First lesson in shipping: nobody cares how hard it was, they care that it works when they double-click.

JavaDatabasesNetworkingShipping to real users
The server-side years

PHP, hi-scores, and a DDoS

The game needed a hi-scores page, so I learned server-side programming with PHP to build one. Then someone DDoS'd it, and the project ended. Second lesson, earlier than most people learn it: the moment your software matters to someone, it becomes a target — build like it.

PHPWeb servicesSecurity, the hard way
The call center years

Inside the industry Flow now serves

A call came for an IT role at a call center, and it turned into the education that defines TecHalo. Managing accounts on the IT side. Building payment integrations, fulfillment integrations, and client reporting. Writing tools to automate the work and get the job done efficiently. Operating on platform after platform — DLS, CRM Pro, Singlecomm, Magnetic North, and more — and serving as the main tester, because attention to detail was the job. Years of watching, from the inside, what call center software does well and what's genuinely missing. That gap list didn't stay a list.

PaymentsFulfillmentReportingAutomationPlatform QA
The custom software years

Mills, storefronts, and food trucks

Alongside the day job: a full mill accounting system for graded and scaled log sales — wood-condition builder for deductions, auto-import via email ingestion, log yard intake. Commerce builds like a restaurant running WooCommerce tied into Square, printing order tickets straight to the food truck. Different industries, same pattern: find where the real work happens, and build the software to meet it there.

Mill accountingWooCommerce + SquareEmail ingestionCustom web builds
2026 · TecHalo

The brand, and the first product

TecHalo is the roof over all of it: a software studio that turns two decades of operational experience into products. Halo Flow — the all-in-one call center platform — is the first, built directly from that gap list. It won't be the last.

Halo Flow — live now
How we operate

Founder-led, on purpose.

TecHalo is a small, founder-led studio — and that's a feature. The person who spent years inside call centers is the person who designs, builds, and tests the platform. No telephone game between the customer, a product manager, and an offshore team. When you email us, the person who answers can fix the thing.

Fast by default

Small means decisions in hours, fixes in days, and a roadmap that bends toward what users actually hit, not committee priorities.

Accountable by name

The builder's name is on the work. That's a higher bar than a brand hiding a rotating cast — reputation is the warranty.

Built to outlast us

Standard stacks (.NET, React, MySQL, Docker), clean architecture, and documentation — no proprietary trap, no bus-factor hostage-taking.

Answer smarter

The gap list became
a platform.

See what twenty years inside call centers looks like when it finally gets to build its own tool.