CTO at LINQ · Founder, Summit Foundry Group
Eric Wood
I'm a technology executive who has spent twenty-plus years helping SaaS companies scale: building first products, modernizing platforms, and leading through the stretch where a company is working out what it wants to be next. I'm CTO at LINQ. Summit Foundry Group is the small diligence and advisory practice I run alongside that.
- years as CTO / engineering leader
- 20+
- acquisitions diligenced and integrated
- 10+
- engineers hired and led
- 0→100+
- years in PE-backed companies
- 6+
Why this practice exists
Skills that are spiky and project-shaped
Most CTOs aren't running an acquisition, a carve-out, or a diligence every quarter. I have, repeatedly, and those are the moments where a second experienced person is worth the most and hardest to find. The practice is deliberately small so that the answer to 'can you look at this deal' is usually yes.
Summit Foundry Group is a small practice I run alongside my role as CTO at LINQ. I take one diligence at a time, or one or two advisory relationships, and I'll tell you on the first call if I'm full.
Experience
Where the twenty years happened
2025 – present
LINQ · Chief Technology Officer
Software that runs the operational backbone of K-12 school districts across the country.
2023 – 2025
Cordance · Chief Technology Officer
A software holding company that acquires and scales B2B SaaS businesses; technology across a portfolio of 20+ companies.
- Led technical due diligence and post-close integration for more than ten acquisitions
- Built a lakehouse giving real-time GTM and operational visibility within 30 days of each acquisition
- Automated quote-to-revenue across the integrated companies, replacing manual workflows
- Standardized cloud, security, IT, and compliance across the portfolio; introduced nearshore engineering
- Set the AI adoption strategy and tooling framework across sales, marketing, and product
2021 – 2023
Aceable · Chief Technology Officer
Consumer SaaS, mobile-first education products serving millions of users; ~50 engineers, hybrid and nearshore.
- Introduced DORA metrics across engineering; deployment frequency up, cycle time down
- Rebuilt the data warehouse and BI stack; improved observability and CI/CD across mobile and web
2020 – 2021
MyFitnessPal · VP Engineering, Head of Data & Infrastructure
Carve-out from Under Armour to a standalone company under Francisco Partners; 85M+ monthly active users.
- Directed the technical execution of the divestiture: new IT systems, separated shared services, $20M+ of infrastructure migrated ahead of schedule with zero downtime
- Consolidated the data architecture and reduced AWS spend by 25%
- Rebuilt hiring and onboarding to scale engineering to around 100 across onshore and offshore teams
2015 – 2020
Under Armour · Senior Director, Data and Foundation Engineering
Connected Fitness: the platform services behind the largest fitness community in the world.
- Consolidated three orchestration systems onto one Kubernetes platform responsible for $1B+ of revenue
- Implemented a CDP and cloud data warehouse across the enterprise at hundreds of millions of transactions a day
- Led 30+ engineers across three locations
2003 – 2015
IBM · Identity, security, and cloud services
Eight years on IBM's identity and access management products, then security consulting and cloud identity services.
BS and MS, Computer Science, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
How I work
Written findings, short
A readout the people deciding can read in fifteen minutes, with the evidence in an appendix for the people doing the work.
Operator's lens
I run an engineering organization today. Findings come with a cost, a time, and an owner, because that's what I'd need to act on them myself.
Replaceable by design
The register is built to hand over. The best outcome is a team that doesn't need me and a firm that calls for the next one anyway.
Working on something I should see?
Send a sentence about the deal or the company. I reply within a business day.
Or email signals@summitfoundrygroup.com. I reply within one business day.