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About

Work directly with the people building your solution.

Grey Mesa Technologies is a consultancy founded by Julian Fraser and Joe French. We bring hands-on software engineering and design judgment to projects that need clear thinking, practical decisions, and dependable delivery.

Why Grey Mesa

Involved from beginning to end.

We founded Grey Mesa to work closely with clients and stay involved in the work from beginning to end. That means understanding the problem, explaining the tradeoffs, building the solution, and making sure the people who inherit it can use and maintain it.

Julian Fraser and Joe French, founders

Founders

The people you will work with.

Two founders, equally involved: in the decisions, the implementation, and the conversations that keep a project moving.

Portrait of Julian Fraser to be supplied

Julian Fraser

Cofounder

Julian Fraser is a software engineer and architect with more than 25 years of experience across web and mobile applications, enterprise systems, and cloud infrastructure. His work spans healthcare, financial services, aerospace, entertainment and recreation, and consumer-facing platforms. He combines hands-on development with architecture and user experience, taking projects from requirements through implementation and release. His recent work includes full-stack application delivery, Kubernetes hosting platforms, and practical agentic AI workflows for software engineering.

Portrait of Joe French to be supplied

Joe French

Cofounder

Joe’s biography will follow his confirmed résumé and preferred public summary: his experience, the sectors he has worked in including utilities, his strongest capabilities, and how he approaches delivery.

Working principles

How we make decisions.

Four habits that shape every engagement, whatever its size.

01

Understand before prescribing

Learn the service, users, and constraints before selecting the solution.

02

Make decisions clear

Explain scope, tradeoffs, dependencies, and responsibilities in plain language.

03

Care about the interface

Treat clarity and usability as part of engineering quality.

04

Build for the handoff

Consider documentation, maintenance, and ownership throughout the project.

Based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Working with clients remotely.

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