Rich Rudzinski
Technical Strategist | CEO
Our high-performance, US-based team is stacked with senior talent
Supporting businesses and founders since 2009
Tragic Media was founded in 2009 by Rich Rudzinski after leaving his job at a large national agency in San Diego. Rich saw a growing gap in the digital service landscape. Existing marketing and design agencies were ill-equiped to scope and manage the growing complexity of emerging technologies.
Over the years the company has evolved and pivoted form a white-label resource for other agencies to a web development agency to an ecommerce focused agency and finally to a custom software and technology agency.
Tragic provides its clients with a team of technical experts, flexible engagement plans, and innovative thinking to help them solve their biggest technology challenges.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Tragic's first big ongoing project was building TaylorMade Golf's marketing emails and managing their Yahoo web store.
Our CEO was nominated for the San Diego 2020 Top Tech Awards
Initially, Tragic worked solely as a white-label development service for larger agencies, acting as the 911 call when projects needed immediate expert development that couldn't be handled in-house.
Since 2019 we have partnered with the San Diego chapter of the American Marketing Association to support their org's tech and share insights to the marketing community.
Our first "office" was 3 rented desks in the corner of a local Drupal agency. We now occupy the historic San Diego Mayor's office just a half-block down 5th avenue from our first location.
In 2013 Tragic had the opportunity to rebuild Pixar.com after a local agency outsourced the project abroad and it came back... less than Pixar ready.