DAN GERICKE / CO-FOUNDER, SHIFTCONTROL
I build tools that automate the work small teams don’t have time for.
Twenty-five years building and securing technology — most recently CTO of ExpressVPN. Now building ShiftControl, from Singapore.
01 What I’m building
ShiftControl
ShiftControl automates the IT and business operations that pile up on small teams — onboarding, offboarding, access, and the SaaS sprawl in between — so a ten- or hundred-person company can run like it has an ops department it doesn’t.
Most ops tooling assumes you have an IT team to run it. Small and mid-sized businesses don’t. They have an office manager who also owns IT, a founder who approves every SaaS purchase, and a list of accounts no one has fully mapped. I’m building ShiftControl so that team can see who has access to what, automate the repetitive lifecycle work, and offboard a departing employee in minutes instead of guessing for weeks.
We connect the tools a business already runs — Google Workspace, the SaaS apps, the laptops — and turn the scattered picture into something a non-specialist can act on: identity, app inventory, and device posture in one view, with the busywork automated and the gaps that matter surfaced first. Better security falls out of better operations — not the other way around.
02 Background
Twenty-five years
Before ShiftControl I spent twenty-five years building and running technology and security organizations. I was Chief Technology Officer of ExpressVPN through its US$1 billion merger, and CTO of the Privacy Division at Kape Technologies. The throughline across all of it is the same problem I’m solving now — building tools for the people and organizations who can’t make operations, or security, their full-time job.
03 Writing & speaking
On the record
I speak on what it takes to run lean — the operational and security realities facing small and mid-sized teams, and what actually moves the needle for them. Recent stages include UK Cyber Week and Workato Automate.
Recent writing: Why SMBs Are the New Target — what 25 years in cybersecurity taught me about the threats nobody budgets for.
More on Medium; my speaker profile lists where I’ve presented.
04 Connect
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn. If you’re curious about what I’m building, start with ShiftControl.